bawl
bawl /b'ɔːl/ (bawls bawling bawled)
1 [VERB] V at n, V with quote, V n
If you bawl, you shout in a very loud voice, for example because you are angry or you want people to hear you.
When I came back to the hotel Laura and Peter were shouting and bawling at each other...
Then a voice bawled: `Lay off! I'll kill you, you little rascal!'...
He tried to direct the video like a fashion show, bawling instructions to the girls.
= yell
[PHRASAL VERB] V P with quote, also V P n (not pron), V n P, V P to n
Bawl out means the same as bawl.
Someone in the audience bawled out `Not him again!'
2 [VERB] V, V-ing, also V with quote
If you say that a child is bawling, you are annoyed because it is crying loudly.
One of the toddlers was bawling, and the other had a runny nose.
...a bawling baby.
1 [VERB] V at n, V with quote, V n
If you bawl, you shout in a very loud voice, for example because you are angry or you want people to hear you.
When I came back to the hotel Laura and Peter were shouting and bawling at each other...
Then a voice bawled: `Lay off! I'll kill you, you little rascal!'...
He tried to direct the video like a fashion show, bawling instructions to the girls.
= yell
[PHRASAL VERB] V P with quote, also V P n (not pron), V n P, V P to n
Bawl out means the same as bawl.
Someone in the audience bawled out `Not him again!'
2 [VERB] V, V-ing, also V with quote
If you say that a child is bawling, you are annoyed because it is crying loudly.
One of the toddlers was bawling, and the other had a runny nose.
...a bawling baby.