ball vs bawl
ball
Definitions
noun
- United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
Examples
Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour".
The ball rebounded from/off the wall into the pond.
‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
bawl
Definitions
verb
- make a raucous noise
- shout loudly and without restraint
- cry loudly
Examples
A pox o your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
She's stuck!" yelled, or as he himself would put it, "bawled," the Prophet.
He stalked over to the pup tent of the recreation tent orderly and bawled him out.
