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bawl

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
[bɔːɫ](UK)
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[bɔːɫ](UK) · /baːl/ · /bɔl/(US) · /bɑl/

Definition of bawl

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
    “commanders bawling”
    “He jumped upon the saddle with another yell as he pushed the machine before him, and the next instant was whirling down the thoroughfare with the rapidity of an express train, bawling for people to "Stand clear!"”
    “"I'm lord of this manor!" he bawled. "I'm Patroon Varick, and I'll do as I please!"”
    “Spade took two long steps and caught Effie Perine by the shoulders. "She didn't get there?" he bawled into her frightened face”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
    “commanders bawling”
    “He jumped upon the saddle with another yell as he pushed the machine before him, and the next instant was whirling down the thoroughfare with the rapidity of an express train, bawling for people to "Stand clear!"”
    “"I'm lord of this manor!" he bawled. "I'm Patroon Varick, and I'll do as I please!"”
    “Spade took two long steps and caught Effie Perine by the shoulders. "She didn't get there?" he bawled into her frightened face”
  2. (intransitive)To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
    “children bawling”
    “cattle bawling”
    “Why did you bawl out just as I was aiming? Who can aim with a fellow bawling in his ear? I've lost the birds through it.”
  3. (intransitive)To weep profusely.
    “children bawling”
    “mourners bawling”

noun

  1. A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
    “[…] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.”

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Etymology

From Middle English baulen, from Old Norse baula (“to bellow”) and/or Medieval Latin baulō (“to bark”), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellaną, *ballijaną, *buljaną (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Faroese belja (“to low”), Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.

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