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bowled

/bɒld/UK/bəʊld/

bowled is the simple past and past participle of bowl.

Adjective

bowled (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element.
    • a large brown-stemmed silver-bowled pipe1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
  2. (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

Meaning of bowl

Verb

bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)

  1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
    • Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
  3. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
  4. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
    • We were bowled rapidly along the road.
  5. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
    • Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about bowled

What does bowled mean?
Bowled means having a bowl or bowl-shaped element.
What is bowled the simple past and past participle of?
Bowled is the simple past and past participle of bowl.
What part of speech is bowled?
Bowled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce bowled?
Bowled is pronounced /bəʊld/ (UK).

Words near bowled in the dictionary

  1. bowlders
  2. bowldery
  3. Bowlds
  4. Bowldses
  5. bowle
  6. bowled
  7. bowled a googly
  8. bowled around the legs
  9. bowled out
  10. bowled over
  11. bowled up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowled (page history and authors); bowl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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