bawl
verb (used without object)
to cry or wail lustily.
has been bawling
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present perfect progressiveof bawl (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Is it found that an infant-school child, who has been bawling all day a column of the multiplication-table, or a verse from the Bible, grows up a more dutiful son or daughter to its parents?
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
