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bawls out

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bawl

  [bawl]
Use bawls out in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to cry or wail lustily.
–verb (used with object)
2. to utter or proclaim by outcry; shout out: to bawl one's dissatisfaction; bawling his senseless ditties to the audience.
3. to offer for sale by shouting, as a hawker: a peddler bawling his wares.
–noun
4. a loud shout; outcry.
5. a period or spell of loud crying or weeping.
6. Chiefly Midland and Western U.S. the noise made by a calf.
—Verb phrase
7. bawl out, Informal. to scold vociferously; reprimand or scold vigorously: Your father will bawl you out when he sees this mess.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML baulāre to bark < Gmc; cf. ON baula to low, baula cow, perh. a conflation of belja (see bell 2 ) with an old root *bhu-

Related forms:
bawler, noun

Synonyms:
1. howl, yowl, squall, roar, bellow.
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Word Origin & History

bawl 
c.1440, from O.N. baula "to low like a cow," and/or M.L. baulare "to bark like a dog," both echoic. To bawl (someone) out "reprimand loudly" is 1908, Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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