Bellowing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bellowing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bellow.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of bellow.
More Meanings
- The sound produced when someone or something bellows
Example Sentences
Incessant bellowings fill all the earth, Mingled with inextinguishable mirth.
The cries of applause and derision from the spectators, and the formidable bellowings of the exasperated monks who surrounded Pachymius, did not tend to steady his nerves, or render the task of critical discrimination the easier.
With great heavings and throes, with snortings and bellowings, with scratchings and tearings of its great claws and lashings of its terrible tail, it writhed and fought to be free, and the light of thousands of fireworks illuminated the gigantic struggle.
Word Forms
- bellowings
Synonyms for bellowing
Depending on context, synonyms include roar, hollering, yowl, yowling, roaring, hollo.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hollering, roar, yowl, yowling, hollo, holla.
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