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/bˈɛloʊɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Bellow v. t. To emit with a loud voice; to shout; used with out. "Would bellow out a laugh."

Bellow v. i. (past & past part. bellowed; pres. part. bellowing)

To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

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."

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Etymology of 'Bellowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bellowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... moor resounded to their throaty roaring and the high cliffs flung back the echoes of the bellowing of the two gladiators below. It was sheer strength now and flesh and bone were bruised and broken under the life-shaking blows that they dealt. Great furrows were plowed in the sand by the sliding of heavy feet as the two fighters shifted to ...

— Hellhounds of the Cosmos • Clifford Donald Simak

... in the doorway and followed instantly after it in a headlong dive. There was a flurry of action, most of the damage being done by his boots, then he was through and running out of the throne room with the men bellowing in pursuit. ...

— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey

... a short memory made his case less pitiful than it seemed to his more sensitive sister. True, he started upstairs to his lonely cot bellowing dismally, before him a dreary future of pains and penalties, sufficient to last to the crack of doom. Outside his door, however, he tumbled over Augustus the cat, and made capture of him; and at once his mourning was changed into a song of triumph, ...

— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame

... Dragon. The monster was covered with scales, and had a long tail and huge unnatural wings, beside fearful jaws that poured out smoke and flame whenever they opened. He always came at dead of night, roaring, bellowing, and sparkling and flaming over the hills, and horrid claps of thunder were very likely to attend his progress. Concerning the nature and quality of his roaring, the honest copyholders of Wantley could ...

— The Dragon of Wantley - His Tale • Owen Wister

... woman behind the bar, "we don't have any bellowing here. If you want to bellow go to ...

— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli

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