bawl out

Questions about bawl out

What does bawl out mean?

bawl out means "censure severely or angrily".

What is another word for bawl out?

Close synonyms include call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce. 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 out a common word?

bawl out 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.