bawled

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Related to bawled: whimper, mewls, sobbed

bawled

shouted; sobbed loudly: The baby bawled when his lollipop was taken away.

Not to be confused with:

bald – bare; without hair: When he grew older, he became bald.

balled – wound into a ball: She balled the yarn.

bawl

(bôl)

v. bawled, bawl·ing, bawls

v.intr.

1. To cry or sob loudly; wail. See Synonyms at cry.

2. To cry out loudly and vehemently; shout.

v.tr.

To utter in a loud, vehement voice. See Synonyms at yell.

A loud, bellowing cry; a wail.

Phrasal Verb:

bawl out Informal

To reprimand loudly or harshly.

[Middle English bawlen, to bark, from Medieval Latin baulāre, to bark (probably of Scandinavian origin) or from Old Norse baula, to low (of imitative origin).]

bawl′er n.

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The babe bawled tremendously, protesting with great violence.

"Git outa deh way," she persistently bawled, waving feet with their dishevelled shoes near the heads of her children.

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"Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street.

"They are coming!" bawled a policeman, hammering at the door; "the Martians are coming!" and hurried to the next door.

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Speak low, that you may not awaken anybody.' But Tom seemed as if he did not understand them, and bawled out again, 'How much will you have?

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'Here he is!' bawled Giles, calling in a state of great excitement, up the staircase; 'here's one of the thieves, ma'am!

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We turned the dusty drill: We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns,

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I walked along with Miss Murray, turning aside my face, and neglecting to notice several successive remarks, till she bawled out that I was either deaf or stupid; and then (having recovered my self-possession), as one awakened from a fit of abstraction, I suddenly looked up and asked what she had been saying.

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"Long time you fella Tiha no sit 'm along canoe," Aora bawled to the victim and set Bashti cackling again.

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"Yes, and you slapped Frank; I saw you!" bawled Willie Snow, bobbing up in his pew.

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Use your clubs!" Horser bawled. "Stand by the door one of you.

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Now as Bert and Grubb bawled their chorus for the third time, they became aware of a very big, golden-brown balloon low in the sky to the north-west, and coming rapidly towards them.