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third-person singular simple present bawls, present participle bawling, simple past and past participle bawled
(transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. quotations examples
Spade took two long steps and caught Effie Perine by the shoulders. "She didn't get there?" he bawled into her frightened face
1929, Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New Yock: Vintage Books (Random House, published 1992, page 117
(intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry. quotations examples
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.
1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall
(intransitive) To weep profusely. examples
plural bawls
A loud, intense shouting or wailing. quotations examples
[…] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard