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bald, balled, bawled
bald (BAWLD) (adjective)
1. No hair on the head; hairless, smooth: When he became bald, he bought a toupee.
2. Lacking a natural or usual covering; bare, without cover, treeless, denuded, barren: The mountain is bald above the tree line.
3. Open, bare, undisguised: That is a bald falsehood!
balled (BAWLD) (verb)
1. To form something into a round shape: I stood up quickly and balled the letter in my hands and threw it into the trash.
2. To have created a state of confusion or of getting things in a tangle or a mess: Because the overseer did not check all the details before giving the order, the workers balled up the project.
bawled (BAWLD) (verb)
1. Past tense of bawl (cried loudly); cried, wailed, wept: The nursery was full of babies who bawled for long periods.
2. Cried out noisily; shouted, bellowed, yelled: The captain bawled for the sergeant to come immediately.
3. Said loudly; shouted by using a very loud voice: The manager shouted, "Come in here, now!" and the salesman was bawled out for showing up late.

Kirby was so upset by the letter from the doctor confirming that he was going bald that he bawled out loud and then balled the letter up and threw it into the trash.

Word Entries at Get Words: “bawled
bawl (BAWL) (verb), bawls; bawled; bawling
1. To cry, wail, howl, yowl, squall, or to weep: Little Jimmy was so upset that he started to bawl for his mother.

Chad was on his bed, bawling uncontrollably because he wanted to go out and play in the snow despite the fact that it was too cold.

2. To say or to shout something using a loud voice: The children were misbehaving so badly and the father was so frustrated, that he could only bawl at them to settle down.

Todd's boss bawled him out because he didn't attend the meeting as he was told.

"Get into the car!", the mother bawled at her two boys who were still fooling around in the yard.

The nursery was full of babies that were bawling.

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