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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

... with my finger in the hot water listening to this rigmarole. When he had finished he ran off to get his tobacco box, and we could hear the bellowing of his laughter dwindling up the stair. I was still looking at the medal, which, from the dents all over it, had evidently been often used as a target, when I felt a timid touch upon my sleeve; it was Mrs. Cullingworth, who was looking earnestly at me with a very distressed ...

— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro

... repress a shudder as they see the fate that the savages have chosen for themselves. Now the brink is reached. The raft tips toward the gulf, and with a cry of triumph the red men are launched over the cataract, into the bellowing chasm, where the mists weep forever on the ...

— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... been more than usually stormy this morning; the squalls that tear across the district of La Beauce, where nothing can check them, had been bellowing for hours; there had been rain, and the puddles splashed under foot. It was difficult to see, and Durtal had begun to think that he should never succeed in getting past the dim mass of the wall that shut ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... hot-foot, with rifle ready. One cub drove him waist deep into the river before a ball finished that young battler. The other men hastened in, summoned by the redoubled cries for help. The old mother grizzly was standing upon Hugh Glass and bellowing defiance. The second cub ran. By several volleys they killed the mother grizzly; then they rolled her off from Trapper Glass and inspected him, to ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... the meanwhile, fixing the point of his lance into the ice, in order to give him a more effective hold. Scarcely had he done so than the spot he had just left was smashed up, and the head of the walrus appeared, grinning and bellowing as if in disappointment. At this moment Peetoot handed his uncle a harpoon, and, ere the animal dived, the weapon was fixed in his side. Once more Annatock changed his position; and once again the spot on which he had been standing was burst upwards. It was a terrible ...

— Ungava • R.M. Ballantyne

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