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Bawl

//baːl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. transitive

    "commanders bawling"

  2. 2
    cry loudly wordnet
  3. 3
    To wail; to give out a blaring cry. intransitive

    "children bawling"

  4. 4
    make a raucous noise wordnet
  5. 5
    To weep profusely. intransitive

    "children bawling"

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  1. 6
    shout loudly and without restraint wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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