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# bawl

«bawl» in Mova's school dictionary: **To cry very loudly, like a baby** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bawl, bawls, bawled, bawling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cry very loudly, like a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#m1)

2) To shout loudly and roughly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#m2)

3) (informal) «bawl someone out» = to tell them off angrily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday: babies bawl; a coach bawls instructions. In Alice in Wonderland the Duchess's baby howls and sneezes. In stories it gives a loud, noisy picture.

### examples

- The baby bawled all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x1)
- «Get out!» bawled the cook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x2)
- The coach bawled at the players to run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x3)
- The little boy bawled when he dropped his ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x4)
- Dad bawled me out for being late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x5)
- The Duchess's baby bawled and sneezed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x6)
- ‘Hullo!’ bawled Blockhead-Hans, ‘here I am! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/#x7)

### note

Homophone: ball. Regular verb: bawled, bawling. Similar: wail, howl, yell.

### In the corpora

- [When the Hatter sang at the concert, the Queen «bawled out» (shouted) «He's murdering the time!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bawl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bawl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.