bawl out
English
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Verb
[edit]bawl out (third-person singular simple present bawls out, present participle bawling out, simple past and past participle bawled out)
- (transitive) To shout very loudly.
- The teacher angrily bawled out my name.
- (transitive) To deliver a loud, hard scolding or lecture to; to reprimand.
- After a mistake like that, there wasn't much to do besides bawl out the offender and clean up.
- (idiomatic) To have a serious argument accompanied by shouting.
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[edit]- See also Thesaurus:argument