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Bawled

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.

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bawled

vb. (en-past of: bawl)

Usage examples of "bawled".

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

As the car moved away a pram, several suitcases and a cot swayed perilously on the roof, the children yelled, the dogs barked, the baby bawled, then they were gone.

Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895 - or CHAPTER "Movel" bawled the drill corporal.

Children shouted, screamed and laughed, spades and pails clattered, a large ball thumped from wall to wall and above it all a baby bawled relentlessly.

But now Gerald had bawled the words “Fort Sumter,” and ev­ery man present forgot his host’s admonition.

Levi, horrified, was quick to cover the situation and bawled: “Choose yo’ padners fo’ de Ferginny reel!

Tim demanded a meeting with this governor, who bawled him out like a coolie.

Then, slapping shoulders and joking, about half of them had crowded through the door when in the passageway the loudspeaker bawled, "Now belay that last word.

Banner headlines bawled of Allied breakthroughs in Morocco, the flight of Rommel, the encirclement of the Germans at Stalingrad.

Renny's voice bawled out of the loudspeaker: "That queer centipede that disappeared after clawin' up the elevator starter -- well, it showed up again.

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty"—he bawled the words and clinked out the tune—"of thee I… where the hell is 'sing'—sing.

Midway through this song, bawled gaily by two hundred people, Norman saw—far down the terrace, at the end in shadow—Cohn's head, and his brown waving arm, poking through the doorway.

They screamed and bawled and hollered till Zaphod thought his ears would shatter.