bowl over
Verb
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Verb
bowl over
- (idiomatic) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
- 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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
- (idiomatic) To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast
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