[ UK /bˈɔːl/ ]
[ US /ˈbɔɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. make a raucous noise
  2. shout loudly and without restraint
  3. cry loudly
    Don't bawl in public!
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How To Use bawl In A Sentence

  • A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog! Act I. Scene I. The Tempest
  • She's stuck!" yelled, or as he himself would put it, "bawled," the Prophet. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
  • He stalked over to the pup tent of the recreation tent orderly and bawled him out.
  • Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
  • I raced back to my room, threw myself on my bed, and bawled like a baby!
  • There was instant silence from the dog, although Tony continued his whining bawl in her ear. Western Man
  • Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
  • Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
  • Then they go out into the living room and they watch the news and they try not to bawl their eyes out because monsters do exist. Monsters
  • Elizabeth Bumiller, a columnist for The New York Times, documented that the "bawler in chief" may be setting a new standard for men.
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