bowl over
English
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Verb
bowl over (third-person singular simple present bowls over, present participle bowling over, simple past and past participle bowled over)
- (idiomatic) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
- This tribe lived largely upon the smaller animals which they bowled over with their stone hatchets after making a wide circle about their quarry and driving it so that it had to pass close to one of their number.
- 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
- The Celtic midfielder appeared to be bowled over by Milorad Pekovic but Italian referee Luca Banti waved play on.
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- (idiomatic) To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast
Translations
to cause to fall to the ground
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to overwhelm with astonishment or wonder — See also translations at flabbergast
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Anagrams
- blow over, overblow, overbowl