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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cry or sob loudly; wail.
  2. v. To cry out loudly and vehemently; shout.
  3. v. To utter in a loud, vehement voice. See Synonyms at shout.
  4. n. A loud, bellowing cry; a wail.
  5. bawl out Informal To reprimand loudly or harshly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To bark or howl, as a dog.
  2. To cry out with a loud full sound; make vehement or clamorous outcries, as in pain, exultation, etc.; shout.
  3. To utter or proclaim by outcry; shout out.
  4. To cry for sale, as a hawker.
  5. n. A shout at the top of one's voice; an outcry: as, the children set up a loud bawl.
  6. n. Obsolete spelling of ball.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
  2. v. intransitive To wail; to give out a blaring cry.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. shout loudly and without restraint
  2. v. make a raucous noise
  3. v. cry loudly

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English bawlen, from Old Norse baula ("to low") and/or Medieval Latin baulō ("bark", v), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bau- (“to bark”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellanan, *ballijanan, *buljanan (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Icelandic baula ("to moo, low"), Swedish böla ("to bellow, low"). More at bell. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English bawlen, to bark, from Medieval Latin baulāre, to bark (probably of Scandinavian origin) or from Old Norse baula, to low (of imitative origin). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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