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 →

2) To shout loudly and roughly. tree →

3) (informal) «bawl someone out» = to tell them off angrily. tree →

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 →
• «Get out!» bawled the cook. tree →
• The coach bawled at the players to run. tree →
• The little boy bawled when he dropped his ice cream. tree →
• Dad bawled me out for being late. tree →
• The Duchess's baby bawled and sneezed. tree →
• ‘Hullo!’ bawled Blockhead-Hans, ‘here I am! tree →

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!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bawl» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.