bellow

[bel-oh]

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verb (used without object)

to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
to roar; bawl: bellowing with rage.

verb (used with object)

to utter in a loud deep voice: He bellowed his command across the room.

noun

an act or sound of bellowing.

Origin of bellow

before 1000; Middle English belwen, akin to Old English bylgan to roar (compare for the vowel Old High German bullôn); extended form akin to bell²

Related formsbel·low·er, nounout·bel·low, verb (used with object)

Synonym study

2. See cry.

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Related Words for bellowed

clamor, yelp, wail, roar, bluster, bray, cry, rout, blare, bawl, bay, whoop, shout, call, low, bark, yell, yawp, shriek, scream

Examples from the Web for bellowed

Contemporary Examples of bellowed

Barzan remained standing and bellowed, “I will not sit down,” adding, “This court is illegal and the daughter of adultery.”
Iraqi Insurgents Circulate the Lie That They Killed the Judge in Saddam’s Trial
Michael Newton
June 28, 2014
“We will reform a broken stop-and-frisk policy to protect the dignity and rights of young men of color,” he bellowed.
The NYPD’s Racist War on Pot
Abby Haglage
June 26, 2014
The Chinese public had waited so long for their Ping-Pong Spring that they bellowed constant approval of the rout.
How to Hide a Famine with Ping-Pong
Nicholas Griffin
January 9, 2014
Quinn hugged the woman and bellowed, “They may have to bleep ya!”
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David Freedlander
September 8, 2013
“Attention, Costco buyers … ” Rivers bellowed through a bullhorn at the Burbank, Calif., location of the superstore chain.
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Kevin Fallon
November 30, 2012

Historical Examples of bellowed

He could have thrown himself on the floor and bellowed to be let alone.
The Prisoner
Alice Brown
"You may expect some rare fooling with the engines, Jack," he bellowed.
End of the Tether
Joseph Conrad
“Then came the Mensheviki with their law,” he bellowed xxxvii suddenly.
The Crimson Tide
Robert W. Chambers
He got to his feet swiftly beside me, bellowed, and took the fence.
'Charge It'
Irving Bacheller
Mere child as I was I could hardly have bellowed like a bull.
My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore

British Dictionary definitions for bellowed

bellow

verb

(intr) to make a loud deep raucous cry like that of a bull; roar
to shout (something) unrestrainedly, as in anger or pain; bawl

noun

the characteristic noise of a bull
a loud deep sound, as of pain or anger

Derived Formsbellower, noun

Word Origin for bellow

C14: probably from Old English bylgan; related to bellan to bell ²

Bellow

noun

Saul . 1915–2005, US novelist, born in Canada. His works include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Angie March (1954), Herzog (1964), Humboldt's Gift (1975), The Dean's December (1981), and Ravelstein (2000): Nobel prize for literature 1976

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Word Origin and History for bellowed

bellow

apparently from Old English bylgan "to bellow," from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, roar." Originally of animals, especially cows and bulls; used of human beings since c.1600. Related: Bellowed; bellowing. As a noun from 1779.