Definition of "bowled" []

• Describing the method of being dismissed in which the ball is bowled, and it hits and breaks the batsman's wicket. (adverb)
• Simple past tense and past participle of bowl. (verb)

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• ""Louis," she burst out, "I'd rather be a Puritan, I think -- and be all dead and dried up like Aunt Janet, than -- than -- what you call bowled over."
• "This phrase bowled me over, for the proportion thus bluntly stated in figures gave me so logical a conception of his exalted expectations, that I hurried away at once to the director to warn him that the enterprise on which we had embarked would not, after all, prove as easy as we thought."
• "At CES this year, we're kind of bowled over by some of the innovative ways 3D technology is making its way into debuting products."