Meaning

3 senses

  1. To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings.

    They were bowled out for 181.

  2. To dismiss or be dismissed bowled.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To overcome opposition from (a person); to remove out of one's way.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. We put a bowl of candy out for the trick-or-treaters.

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Forms

bowls out, bowling out, bowled out, bowled out
Base formbowl out · to bowl out
3rd person singularbowls out
Present participlebowling out
Past simplebowled out
Past participlebowled out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybowl out
he, she, itbowls out

Past simpleLesson

all personsbowled out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bowled out
he, she, ithas bowled out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bowl out

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bowelbowlB1bowlerbowlinebowtie

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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