bawling vs crying

bawling and crying both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bawling	Yes	No	No	No
crying	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, crying is a hypernym of bawling; that is, crying is a word with a broader meaning than bawling:

bawling: loud cries made while weeping
crying: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

Other hypernyms of bawling include tears, weeping.

bawling (noun)	crying (noun)
loud cries made while weeping	the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

bawling (adjective)	crying (adjective)
	conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
	demanding attention