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bowling out

bowling out is the present participle and gerund 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 bowling out

What is bowling out the present participle and gerund of?
Bowling out is the present participle and gerund of bowl out.

Words near bowling out in the dictionary

  1. bowling crease
  2. bowling creases
  3. bowling figures
  4. bowling green
  5. bowling greens
  6. bowling out
  7. bowling over
  8. bowling shirt
  9. bowling shirts
  10. bowling shoe
  11. bowling up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowling 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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