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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bawl /bɔl/USA pronunciation v. - to cry or wail loudly and strongly:[no object]The baby was bawling all night.
- to cry out: [no object]She bawled down the hallway at me.[~ + object]The drunk was bawling this song all night.[~ + out + object]The captain bawled out the orders.[used with quotations]There was an old woman bawling, "Repent, ye sinners!''
- bawl out, Informal. to scold vigorously: [~ + object + out]:The dean bawled the students out for cheating.[~ + out + object]The dean bawled out the students who had been caught cheating.
n. [countable] - a loud shout or outcry:I heard a loud bawl and then silence.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bawl (bôl),USA pronunciation v.i. - to cry or wail lustily.
v.t. - to utter or proclaim by outcry;
shout out:to bawl one's dissatisfaction; bawling his senseless ditties to the audience. - to offer for sale by shouting, as a hawker:a peddler bawling his wares.
- bawl out, [Informal.]to scold vociferously;
reprimand or scold vigorously:Your father will bawl you out when he sees this mess. n. - a loud shout;
outcry. - a period or spell of loud crying or weeping.
- Dialect Terms[Chiefly Midland and Western U.S.]the noise made by a calf.
- Gmc; compare Old Norse baula to low, baula cow, perh. a conflation of belja (see bell2) with an old root *bhu-
- Medieval Latin baulāre to bark
- late Middle English 1400–50
bawl′er, n. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged howl, yowl, squall, roar, bellow.
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