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adjective
Date: 1599
1. producing or marked by a sound resembling a howl <a howling storm> 2. desolate, wild <a howling wilderness> 3. very great ; pronounced <a howling success> • howlingly adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
howling
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