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n. - Loud cries made while weeping.

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  • To think of having uneducated and formerly godless people "bawling" the
  • While she managed to keep her composure during the broadcast, she said she was "bawling" later.
  • He said in the early hours of November 25 last year he saw the accused distraught, shaking and "bawling".
  • "I 'xpected to see some of you bawling about now --"
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