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  • verb Present participle of bawl.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun loud cries made while weeping

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Examples

  • We had to search someone the other day (it turns out that my trainer knows the guy and figured that searching his car was a safe way for me to try my first real search), and the older women began "bawling" when we began to search him and his car.

    ‘Spirits Are Still High’ 2007

  • Rushing in, I was informed that Noah was "bawling" (which fact was perfectly evident), having jammed his fingers in trying to "hist" the window.

    Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911

  • To think of having uneducated and formerly godless people "bawling" the

    The Authoritative Life of General William Booth 1881

  • While she managed to keep her composure during the broadcast, she said she was "bawling" later.

    mjsbigblog 2009

  • He said in the early hours of November 25 last year he saw the accused distraught, shaking and "bawling".

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009

  • The garish colors, the bawling kids, the irritating and distracting music and the inedible snacks make it no place for conversation or cogitation.

    Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks 2009

  • The shepherd that found him, he was flat astounded, took the lad home just so's he could sit there listening to him ... bawling and bawling.

    Scruffians Stamp Hal Duncan 2009

  • The shepherd that found him, he was flat astounded, took the lad home just so's he could sit there listening to him ... bawling and bawling.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I could hear near and distant explosions of rifles, shouts and curses of men, women screaming and children bawling.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • And what I witnessed set me bawling, "What now, Vandervoot?" till all our crew came running.

    Chapter 15 2010

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