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Bawl   /bɔl/   Listen
Bawl

verb
(past & past part. bawled; pres. part. bawling)
1.
Shout loudly and without restraint.  Synonym: bellow.
2.
Make a raucous noise.  Synonym: yawp.
3.
Cry loudly.



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"Bawl" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was some kind of a sack. I want lots of stars in my crown when I get to heaven. Just think how terrible you'd feel s'posing when St. Peter let you inside the Gates, he handed you just a plain, blank crown. Mercy! I know I'd bawl my eyes out even if it does say there aren't any tears in heaven. So I picked out the things I liked the very best of all I got on Christmas—that is, most of them were. I don't care much for dolls, so that wasn't any sacri-fice for me; but Allee likes ...
— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown

... futures may lie in a slipper?" replied Rose, who had a reputation for being clever. "I am sure that my slipperings, for instance, generated a tendency for epigram; something swift and sharp. It destroyed the tendency to bawl continuously,—the equivalent of the great national ...
— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... sprawling over tables, and writing while their heads went round in a circle as the pen moved— simple young men, these, who would—but there is no need to think of them grown old; others eating sweets; here they boxed; and, well, Mr. Hawkins must have been mad suddenly to throw up his window and bawl: "Jo—seph! Jo—seph!" and then he ran as hard as ever he could across the court, while an elderly man, in a green apron, carrying an immense pile of tin covers, hesitated, balanced, and then went on. But this was a diversion. There were young men who read, lying in shallow arm-chairs, holding ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... one and all, From different windows different tones; Bade him farewel with many a bawl, And sent their love ...
— Wild Flowers - Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry • Robert Bloomfield

... hurried up saying that the Abbot of Blossholme desired their presence. At this tidings Cicely turned faint, and Emlyn rated Bridget, asking if her few wits had left her, or if she thought that name was so pleasant to her mistress that she should suddenly bawl it in ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard


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