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YELPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("yelping" is a kind of...):
cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)
Derivation:
yelp (bark in a high-pitched tone)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb yelp
Context examples:
After the first rush, each time, his snarl kept the three dogs at a distance but they trailed along behind, yelping and bickering and insulting him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They closed in upon her, snarling and yelping, and she was buried, screaming with agony, beneath the bristling mass of bodies.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The yelping died away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When the sled started, he floundered in the soft snow alongside the beaten trail, attacking Sol-leks with his teeth, rushing against him and trying to thrust him off into the soft snow on the other side, striving to leap inside his traces and get between him and the sled, and all the while whining and yelping and crying with grief and pain.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
