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bellow

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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.

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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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Examples from the Web for bellowed

Contemporary Examples of bellowed

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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for bellowed

bellow

v.

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.

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