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Bawl out   /bɔl aʊt/   Listen
Bawl out

verb
1.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"






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"Bawl out" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother!' I bawl out, for I was very angry; 'and if Lintot offers her any liberty, I'll brain him with ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... food and drink. To each of the cardinals two conclavists were attached, whose duty it was to ply them with brandy, carry insulting messages from one to another, and induce them, as they grew tipsy, to bawl out all sorts of abuse of one another. To all this ribaldry the czar listened with delight, taking note at the same time of anything said of which he might make future use ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... asleep when this boy slips out of his front-gate and snicks the latch behind him softly. It is very still, so still that though he is more than a mile away from the railroad he can hear Johnny Mara, the night yardmaster, bawl out: "Run them three empties over on Number Four track!" the short exhaust of the obedient pony-engine, and the succeeding crash of the cars as they bump against their fellows. It is very still, scarey still. The gas-lamp flaring and flickering among the green maples ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood



Words linked to "Bawl out" :   lambast, objurgate, pick apart, chide, chastise, berate, reprimand, criticize, correct, knock, castigate, chasten, criticise, tell off, brush down



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