bawl

Other forms of bawl

past tense

bawled·

present participle

bawling·

third person

bawls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bawl

What does bawl mean?

bawl means "shout loudly and without restraint". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bawl?

bawl has 1 syllable: bawl. In IPA it is /ˈbɔl/.

What is another word for bawl?

Close synonyms include bellow, yawp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bawl a common word?

bawl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bawl?

24 words rhyme with bawl. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.