verb
Meaning 1
To shout very loudly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The teacher angrily bawled out my name.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
bawl out
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verb
Meaning 2
To deliver a loud, hard scolding or lecture to; to reprimand in order to kill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- After a mistake like that, there wasn't much to do besides bawl out the offender and clean up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To have a serious argument accompanied by shouting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 4
censure severely or angrily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
- The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
- The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Narrower terms: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct, tell off, brush down
History
Etymology
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