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Another word for bowl over

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Verb

  1. To overwhelm with surprise, wonder, or bewilderment

    See also:

    surprise

    excite

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Another word for bowl over

Verb
  1. See also:

    surprise

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • " The smoker assumes a comfortable attitude (lying down of course) at a proper distance from the lamp. He now puts the stem to his lips, and holds the bowl over the lamp. The heat causes the opium to frizzle, and the smoker takes three or four long inhalations, all the time using the dipper to bring every particle of the opium to the orifice as it burns away, but not taking his lips from the end of the stem, or the opium pellet from the lamp till all is finished.

  • The Didache bids us " pour water on the head," and Christian pictures and sculptures ranging from the 1st to the 10th century represent the baptizand as standing in the water, while the baptizer pours water from his hand or from a bowl over his head.

  • The animal skittles Set contains six soft cute animal skittles to bowl over with the rattling bowling ball.

  • The Animal Skittles Set contains six soft cute animal skittles to bowl over with the rattling bowling ball.

  • Place the butter, chocolate, and boiling water in a heat proof bowl and place that bowl over a pot of simmering water.

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