Bellow vs Rebellow - What's the difference?
bellow | rebellow |
To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
* Dryden
To shout in a deep voice.
*{{quote-news, year=2012
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, title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd
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(obsolete) Of a bull (or similar animal): to bellow again, or as a reply.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
*:The Lyons rore; the Tygres loudly bray; / The raging Buls rebellow through the wood […].
As verbs the difference between bellow and rebellow
is that bellow is to make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull while rebellow is of a place: to re-echo {{term|to}} or {{term|with}} a sound.As a noun bellow
is the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.bellow
English
Verb
(en verb)- the bellowing voice of boiling seas
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References
rebellow
English
Verb
(en verb)- The cave rebellowed , and the temple shook. — Dryden.
