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/bˈɛloʊɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Bellow v. t. To emit with a loud voice; to shout; used with out. "Would bellow out a laugh."

Bellow v. i. (past & past part. bellowed; pres. part. bellowing)

To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. "The bellowing voice of boiling seas."

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Etymology of 'Bellowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bellowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... again came gusts of turmoil, hammering, the clanging and throb of machinery, and presently—the bellowing ...

— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells

... always cries when he is woken up," returned the mother tranquilly. She did not seem to take the least notice of the child's bellowing. She might have been deaf for all the effect it had upon her. She stood there placidly holding it, though it seemed very heavy for her, while the child screamed itself purple. She began a conversation with Morley just precisely as if the child ...

— Five Nights • Victoria Cross

... Blaine saw the danger to other troops behind. It so happened that these troops were Sammies and Blaine, with a swoosh, swept down to within a dozen yards right over the heads of these men and the column heard his megaphone bellowing: ...

— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry

... her lines. Her German songs were also charming and well phrased and the interpretation perfect. Knowing the German language myself, I was able to appreciate and understand her rendering of them. It was only once she gave one or two of those former bellowing notes, and as quickly as she had uttered them she changed to the touchful notes that were more pleasing. I fully enjoyed the concert as much as I had disliked the opera which I heard in 1884 and which had left such an ugly impression. ...

— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson

... had been on shift raced after and past him to the main traveller. He followed at a surprisingly rapid pace, bellowing his instructions. Blake, holding back in the lead of his far larger party from the shore, began to issue terse orders to the gangs of carpenters and laborers. They strung along the extension arm, outward from the point where the floor-system was completed. Before ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

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