0 past simple and past participle of bawl --
1 to shout in a very loud voice: --
She bawled at me to sit down.
He was bawling his eyes out.
I went out and bawled on the ridge.
It's all pretty stomping, insistent and bawled out stuff.
We too easily allow ourselves to get bawled out.
The theory is that it is very demoralizing and debasing to be bawled at by a sergeant-major.
Who else would accept being bawled at on a parade ground?
The hare's cries were now muffled so that it bawled like a child left alone in a deserted home.
This is a simple principle whereby you go and kick the office boy after being bawled out by the boss.