Bawl: Definition and part of speech

Bawl

  1. n. A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
  2. v. i. To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
  3. v. i. To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
  4. v. t. To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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