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Word entry · 4 letters

wolf

Best crossword clue

"Howling pack animal"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /wʊlf/Part of speech verb, nounSorted flowStarts with WEnds with F6 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A wild doglike animal; also to eat food very quickly.

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus.

Used in a sentence

  • “The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.”
  • “They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.”
  • “the bee wolf”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer6 curated clues

01“Howling pack animal”4 letters
02“Howling wild canine”4 letters
03“Pack canine”4 letters
04“Pack predator”4 letters
05“Predator in a pack”4 letters
06“Wild canine”4 letters

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