"bowl over" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bowl over.ogg [Australia] Forms: bowls over [present, singular, third-person], bowling over [participle, present], bowled over [participle, past], bowled over [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bowl over (third-person singular simple present bowls over, present participle bowling over, simple past and past participle bowled over)
  1. (idiomatic) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to cause to fall to the ground): kaataa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-bowl_over-en-verb-XyYZZHP~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (over) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 6 5 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (over): 76 9 15 Disambiguation of 'to cause to fall to the ground': 99 1 1
  2. (idiomatic) To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to overwhelm with astonishment or wonder — see also flabbergast): lyödä ällikällä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-bowl_over-en-verb-JHDbSVjR Disambiguation of 'to overwhelm with astonishment or wonder — see also flabbergast': 32 65 2
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bowl, over.
    Sense id: en-bowl_over-en-verb-ZeWc3s~A

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bowl over meaning in English (2.5kB)

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