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My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.
Koren Zailckas

Meaning of "bawling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BAWLING

bawling  [ˈbɔːlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BAWLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bawling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BAWLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bawling

Crying

Crying is the shedding of tears in response to an emotional state in humans. The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures". A related medical term is lacrimation, which also refers to non-emotional shedding of tears. A neuronal connection between the lacrimal gland and the areas of the human brain involved with emotion has been established. Some scientists believe that only humans produce tears in response to emotional states, while others disagree. Charles Darwin wrote in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals that the keepers of Indian elephants in the London Zoo told him that their charges shed tears in sorrow. Tears produced during emotional crying have a chemical composition which differs from other types of tears. They contain significantly greater quantities of the hormones prolactin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, Leu-enkephalin, and the elements potassium and manganese.

Definition of bawling in the English dictionary

The definition of bawling in the dictionary is in the act of crying. Other definition of bawling is in the act of shouting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BAWLING


appalling
əˈpɔːlɪŋ
brawling
ˈbrɔːlɪŋ
calling
ˈkɔːlɪŋ
caterwauling
ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ
crawling
ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
disinthralling
ˌdɪsɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
drawling
ˈdrɔːlɪŋ
enthralling
ɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
falling
ˈfɔːlɪŋ
footballing
ˈfʊtˌbɔːlɪŋ
galling
ˈɡɔːlɪŋ
kerb-crawling
kɜːb ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
morling
ˈmɔːlɪŋ
paintballing
ˈpeɪntˌbɔːlɪŋ
Pauling
ˈpɔːlɪŋ
sprawling
ˈsprɔːlɪŋ
squalling
ˈskwɔːlɪŋ
trawling
ˈtrɔːlɪŋ
unrecalling
ˌʌnrɪˈkɔːlɪŋ
warling
ˈwɔːlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BAWLING

bawbee
bawcock
bawd
bawdier
bawdiest
bawdily
bawdiness
bawdric
bawdry
bawdy
bawdyhouse
bawl
bawl out
bawler
bawley
bawn
bawneen
bawsunt
bawtie

WORDS THAT END LIKE BAWLING

bowling
carpet bowling
cowling
crown green bowling
curb crawling
feeling
five-pin bowling
fowling
handling
howling
kerb crawling
mailing
pair trawling
prowling
Rowling
scowling
seam bowling
tenpin bowling
wildfowling
yowling

Synonyms and antonyms of bawling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BAWLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bawling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bawling
bay · bellow · blubber · call · clamour · cry · greet · halloo · holler · hollo · howl · keen · mewl · roar · scream · shout · snivel · sob · squall · vociferate · wail · weep · whimper · whine · whinge · yell · yowl

Translation of «bawling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BAWLING

Find out the translation of bawling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bawling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bawling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

嚎啕大哭
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

berrear
570 millions of speakers

English

bawling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bawling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصياح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

реветь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

berrando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bawling
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gueulard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bawling
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heulen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bawling
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

외치기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bawling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bawling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

bawling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंधळाची परिस्थिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

haykırış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bawling
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wrzeszcząc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ревіти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bawling
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bawling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bawling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bawling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bawling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bawling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BAWLING»

The term «bawling» is regularly used and occupies the 87.302 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BAWLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bawling

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QUOTES WITH «BAWLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bawling.
1
Koren Zailckas
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAWLING»

Discover the use of bawling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bawling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sex, Social Purity, and Sarah Grand: Journalistic writings ...
THE. BAWLING. BROTHERHOOD. Source: Review of Reviews, (1894), 9, p. 384 [Review of The New Aspect of the Woman Question'] Emulating the exploits of Mrs. Lynn Linton, who achieved considerable notoriety by her invention of the ...
Ann Heilmann, Stephanie Forward, 2000
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The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930
It is amusing as well as interesting to note the pause which the new aspect of the woman question has given to the Bawling Brothers who have hitherto tried to howl down every attempt on the part of our sex to make the world a pleasanter ...
Martha H. Patterson, 2008
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The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches
called nie at the door) but Uncle John, quick I'm called — " " Well, Bawling, I reckon it don't make much odds about your going back — you've told that juror what they must do wonce, and I reckon they wont ha' a furgot it by this time, Bawling.
Joseph Glover Baldwin, 1854
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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
The grassroots tradition of “bawling down” was also employed against singers who failed to impress the audience. (Rohlehr 1986:24) ◊ The woman is said to have started bawling down the place and eventually left the hotel. (TG 26 Nov ...
Lise Winer, 2009
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Welcome to Trashtown
It's a bawl room, a room for bawling. It's a bully room. A room full of yelling and shouting and bad behavior and lots and lots of crying. You know, bawling. It's a bawlroom. Most sports have balls, and with balls come kids and with kids come ...
Stuart Rotman, 2007
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A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles and Drama of the 1890s
asked the Bawling Brotherhood when the first misgiving of the truth flashed upon them; and then, to reassure themselves, they pointed to a certain sort of woman in proof of the contention that we were all unsexing ourselves. It would be as ...
Carolyn Christensen Nelson, 2000
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I'M Thinking of a Master Plan.
Body bags bring about a lot of bawling, A lot of tears over the years And still, Counting Body bags bring about a lot of bawling A lot of shouts, confusion, and doubts And still. Counting Body bags bring about a lot of bawling, A lot of unheard ...
Elviles M. Crosby, 2011
8
Osage Grammar
(258) Johna akxa kaazgpe Johna akxa 0-0-kaazg-api-de John SUBJ p3P-A3s- scold-PL-DECL 'John is bawling them out [bawling out people]; John is scolding' (259a) zikdzi haachi wdazg akxai zikdzi haachi wa-0-kaazg akxa-de children ...
Carolyn Quintero, 2004
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Moths
“If women don't want to be men, what do they want?” asked the Bawling Brotherhood when the first misgiving of the truth flashed upon them; and then, to reassure themselves, they pointed to a certain sort of woman in proof of the contention ...
Ouida, Natalie Schroeder, 2005
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Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology
It is amusing as well as interesting to note the pause which the new aspect of the woman question has given to the Bawling Brothers who have hitherto tried to howl down every attempt on the part of our sex to make the world a pleasanter ...
Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAWLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bawling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stepan's future; moneypuck in Toronto; Jamaica hits the ice (Puck …
“[She] had been putting her makeup on for dinner and now she's bawling her eyes out…” [Montreal Gazette]. • Garth Snow hasn't made any ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
2
Holland man at odds with township over wife's headstone
“My sister-in-law called me bawling on Monday because she came here and found it empty, completely gone. They took the whole headstone ... «Fox17, Jul 15»
3
Family handcuffed at gunpoint because of 911 hoax, police seek …
"I'm trying to support the kids and I'm bawling 'it's going to be okay,'” Hoax victim Delaney Walker said. Police let Ryan and Jeanine Lent listen ... «WGME, Jul 15»
4
Talking to Our Children About Capital Controls
My 5-year-old was bawling her eyes out on the way home; she wanted an ice cream cone, a croissant, a bottle of orange juice, some cookies ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
What I did on my holiday
... and then Mitch starts to cry and that's set me off and I'm standing up there on top of this giant pillar bawling my eyes out but I give the statue a ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
6
Trump's trumpeting leaves golf in uncomfortable position
If that opportunity was blown out of the water by the powers-that-be, then maybe the bluster and the bawling would ease. Admittedly, it's like ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
7
You should know about: Sense8
Although their love starts off as secret, it begins to unravel in a way that we think is so cute you'll be bawling your eyes out before the end of the ... «So So Gay, Jul 15»
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Wimbledon 2015: Davis Cup drama adds to Nick Kyrgios colour …
... with racket flinging, scaling a wall to check on a Lleyton Hewitt doubles match and bawling “dirty scum” – self-directed, apparently – just three ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Little Girl Who Bawled Her Eyes Out After TJ Oshie Trade Gets to …
We know this because Libby's mom videotaped her bawling her eyes and uploaded it to YouTube, where it quickly went viral. While recording ... «VICE, Jul 15»
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TJ Oshie surprises 5-year-old girl who was distraught that he wasn't …
Word that Oshie wouldn't play for St. Louis anymore sent 5-year-old Libby Lu into a bawling fit of despair, so her parents did the only sensible ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

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