It's the more common and widely used term for "sobbing" in Filipino.
Here are some examples of how to use "hagulgol" in a sentence:
* Naging hagugolgol ang bata nang malaman niyang namatay ang kanyang aso. (The child sobbed when she found out her dog died.)
* Naghagulgol siya sa sakit ng kanyang puso. (She sobbed in the pain of her broken heart.)