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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bawl
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ He hadn't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight.
▪ His arm was round one of his companions, while both bawled out an indecent love ditty.
▪ If you didn't, you were bawled out, and that took an awful lot of getting used to.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Stop that thief!" he bawled at the top of his voice.
▪ "Stop, bawling," Dad said crossly, "and come over here."
▪ I couldn't help it, I just started bawling.
▪ One of the prison guards was bawling orders across the yard.
▪ That couple next door are always shouting and bawling at each other.
▪ The baby was sitting in his high chair, red in the face and bawling.
▪ The captain stood at the front, bawling orders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He became one of the more notorious tramps of the city, begging and bawling on every street corner.
▪ I dribbled, I wet my pants, even banged my head on the furniture, and bawled ... bawled almost nonstop.
▪ If you didn't, you were bawled out, and that took an awful lot of getting used to.
▪ It bawled whenever I got near it so Dad said I'd better keep out of the way.
▪ It was to the point where I was crying, I was bawling hysterically.
▪ Jess, though, is openly bawling even before the announcer calls her name.
▪ The roped calf was up instantly, bawling hoarsely, shaking his head.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bawl

Bawl \Bawl\ (b[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bawled (b[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bawling.] [Icel. baula to low, bellow, as a cow; akin to Sw. b["o]la; cf. AS bellan, G. bellen to bark, E. bellow, bull.]

  1. To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

  2. To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.

Bawl

Bawl \Bawl\, v. t. To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
--Swift.

Bawl

Bawl \Bawl\, n. A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bawl

mid-15c., "to howl like a dog," from Old Norse baula "to low like a cow," and/or Medieval Latin baulare "to bark like a dog," both echoic. Meaning "to shout loudly" attested from 1590s. To bawl (someone) out "reprimand loudly" is 1908, American English. Related: Bawled; bawling.

Wiktionary
bawl

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. 2 (context intransitive English) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.

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WordNet
bawl

  1. v. shout loudly and without restraint [syn: bellow]

  2. make a raucous noise [syn: yawp]

  3. cry loudly; "Don't bawl in public!"

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Wikipedia
Bawl

Bawl may refer to:

  • Bawl, Irish band from the 1990s, predecessor of Pony Club
  • Bawls, energy drink
  • Crying (synonym)

Usage examples of "bawl".

And finally, yes, finally, let me tell you, Leonard Hammond, just you dare to come in here and bawl at me once more, just once more, or if I hear you bawling at my granddaughter, you will have no job and no home, not in this house, anyway.

It bawled when Jack hit it, floundered backward, sat briefly on its haunches, and then lunged for the far bank.

Ike bawled, raising his chest proudly like a bellows to make room for his close order voice.

He went on into the orderly room grinning and Old Ike bawled Atten HUT again, making it two words again, and the men still went on working.

I thrust my burning face into it, drinking my fill, while the renegade in scarlet bawled at me and fumed and cursed, demanding my attention to what he was saying.

Accepting this lack of understanding as something that proved nothing one way or the other, the officer bawled at the crowd.

It flailed and bawled and could not rise from its burden, and it remained a sobering example of a misstep until they could make the long descent and deal with it.

She laughed when things were good, and she bawled when things were bad.

As they kicked their way through the snow, he bawled orders to his groundcrew.

The one that bawled at you would likely be what I term the carp among the salmon.

He heard the front door slamming and a couple bawling obscenely at each other on the path outside.

That buzz that can only really be attained by being up on stage bawling into a microphone and working up a good old sweat.

Ron was bawling for Dave to come over and look at this stuff, might be something in it.

Amid this vast stretch of stars, with seemingly endless planets an which lived not a soul to call him Joe, he could have really enjoyed the arrival from far away or an irate human voice bawling him out good and proper for some error, real or fancied.

The beasts, in the uncertainty of so many new riders, lost patience and moved away from nudging knees and elbows, adding to the bawling confusion.