Home › Words › W › wolvewolve/wʊlv/wolve means to behave like a wolf.wolve is pronounced /wʊlv/.EtymologyFrom inflected stem of wolf.verbTo behave like a wolf.Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.e.g.“he had returned to his schoolboy's script, to distant Evensongs, to the wolving of the ancient chapel organ as the last light is extinguished and the door latched for the long night.” — 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 784:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).