To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
To utter with outcry.
Any similar sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.