Crossword clues for bowl over
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground.
WordNet
v. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer" [syn: overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, tump over]
overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle]
Usage examples of "bowl over".
Rhuarc paused, using a pair of tongs to hold a hot coal from the sand-filled brass bowl over his pipe.
He rinsed his wine bowl over the side, making a great show of it, and avoiding Huy’.
The footmen hated him and he had enjoyed tormenting them, tangling his lead, urinating in the corridors and knocking his water bowl over.
He hid his head with embarrassment, placing the bowl over his blushing face.
Then, with a quick twist of his hand, he turned the bowl over, spilling its contents onto the stony ground.
Stilicho had been heating something in a bowl over the burner, and was no doubt so busy straining to hear what was being said that he let the bowl tilt, and some of the liquid spilled onto the flames.
With these fleet little creatures racing and leaping across the plain, it was an extraordinary sight to watch Tanus bowl over a dozen of them at full run with as many arrows.