bawl out
verb
bawled out; bawling out; bawls out
: to reprimand loudly or severely
Her boss bawled her out for forgetting the meeting.
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Examples of bawl out in a Sentence
got bawled out by the boss for missing another important deadline
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Women stopped to bawl out the police, who accepted this dressing-down with quiet embarrassment.
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National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
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“Bawl out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bawl%20out. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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