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BELLOWING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
Example:
his bellow filled the hallway
Synonyms:
bellow; bellowing; holla; holler; hollering; hollo; holloa; roar; roaring; yowl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bellowing" is a kind of...):
call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)
Derivation:
bellow (shout loudly and without restraint)
bellow (make a loud noise, as of animal)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bellow
Context examples:
By my faith! that's easily seen, said the prince, laughing, for a few score English archers at yonder end are bellowing as though they would out-shout the mighty multitude.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They rushed bellowing at him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There were seals all about us in the water, and the bellowing thousands on the beach compelled us to shout at each other to make ourselves heard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
No matter how terribly he was beaten, he had always another growl; and when Beauty Smith gave up and withdrew, the defiant growl followed after him, or White Fang sprang at the bars of the cage bellowing his hatred.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At the same time there broke upon our ears a continuous and mighty bellowing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Smoke the irrepressible related a story, and they descended into the steerage, bellowing with laughter.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Round and round the decks they went, Mugridge sick with fear, the sailors hallooing and shouting directions to one another, and the hunters bellowing encouragement and laughter.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His incessant talking and shouting and bellowing of orders had been too much for Wolf Larsen, who had accordingly foisted the nuisance upon his hunters.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was doing it now, vociferating, bellowing, waving his arms, and cursing like a fiend, and all because of a disagreement with another hunter as to whether a seal pup knew instinctively how to swim.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
