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bowled out

bowled out is the simple past and past participle of bowl out.

Meaning of bowl out

Verb

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

  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.
    • At least once a year, I go to every grammar school in my constituency—with one exception where the headmaster has managed to keep me out, but I shall bowl him out this year.1968, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 395

Questions about bowled out

What is bowled out the simple past and past participle of?
Bowled out is the simple past and past participle of bowl out.

Words near bowled out in the dictionary

  1. Bowldses
  2. bowle
  3. bowled
  4. bowled a googly
  5. bowled around the legs
  6. bowled out
  7. bowled over
  8. bowled up
  9. bowleg
  10. bowlegged
  11. bowleggedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowled out (page history and authors); bowl out (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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