Crossword clues for bellowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellow \Bel"low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bellowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bellowing.] [OE. belwen, belowen, AS. bylgean, fr. bellan; akin to G. bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. balsas voice. Cf. Bell, n. & v., Bawl, Bull.]
To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.
--Dryden.-
To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.
The bellowing voice of boiling seas.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from present participle of bellow (v.). As an adjective, recorded from 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. The sound produced when someone or something bellows vb. (present participle of bellow English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "bellowing".
It was the Viking lurs, bellowing from ship to skip, talking musically of the new land.
But from somewhere back in the bush, drums rumbled sullenly through all the hours of darkness, a satanic-sounding accompaniment to the lunatic cackles of hyaenas, the hissings and bellowings of crocodiles, the low coughing of leopards, and the hundred and one other noises made by other feasters on the cleared land outside the walls.
The beast bristled, but held its ground, bellowing loudly enough to make the trees swish.
An eternity later, a voice bellowing her name brought her to the head of the stairs.
It seemed very suicide to dive into that bellowing vortex, suicide in a singularly fearful guise.
Tomas Var was bellowing orders, gathering his marines about him, and Arcole ran to join them.
No sooner did the Constabulary pile up at the terminus of the staircase than they staggered to their feet, bellowing with outrage like bulls.
All of them were bellowing with fear, true, but men such as those will react with violence to almost anything.
Here there rose to the spying birds the bellowing of cattle, yonder the bleating of sheep and goats, and now and again the shrill whinny of a horse.
A chorus of bellowing voices was constantly around them, A strident shrieking or whistling sound was the only one that caused the crowd any dismay.
The thunder of their battle, the bellowing of their two voices raised in rage and pain, deafened and dazed the few humansless than two dozen altogetherunlucky enough to have been trapped with the pair inside the Cave of Prophecy.
Beside him struggled Ferrante, bellowing curses, sword half-drawn, also hopelessly entangled in the net.
The Lord of the Underworld unleashed a horrible bellowing, threat and warning no less frightful for being wordless.
When Apollo let out a god-voiced bellowing for Hephaestus to come out or to let them in, Ferrante grimaced and plugged his ears with his fingers.
In the background, audible even above the thunder of collapse, rose the terrible bellowing of Hades, engulfed in rage and pain, stabbed by a flaming lance of afternoon sunlight, sent crawling and scurrying in a desperate retreat.