bowl sb over
— phrasal verb with bowl uk/bəʊl/us/boʊl/verb [ I or T ]
(KNOCK DOWN)
to knock someone to the ground by running into them :
She was almost bowled over by a huge dog.
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
- bang
- broadside
- buffet
- bump
- cannon
- catch
- ding
- go into sth
- hit
- jarring
- knock
- knock sb down
- knock sb over
- prang
- run (sth) into sth/sb
- run sb/sth down
- smash
- smash-up
- stack
- strike
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(PLEASE)
to surprise and please someone a lot:
She was bowled over when she heard she'd won the competition.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- flabbergast
- revelation
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- stupefy
- thunderbolt
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