Antonyms for bowl down
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bohl |
| Phonetic Transcription : boÊŠl |
Definition of bowl down
Origin :- game played with balls, mid-15c. (implied in bowlyn), from gerund of bowl "wooden ball" (early 15c.), from Old French bole (13c., Modern French boule) "ball," ultimately from Latin bulla "bubble, knob, round thing" (see bull (n.2)).
- Noon apprentice ... [shall] play ... at the Tenys, Closshe, Dise, Cardes, Bowles nor any other unlawfull game. [Act 11, Henry VII, 1495]
- As in tumble : verb fall or make fall awkwardly
- When his soup was finished he set the bowl down and leaned back with a sigh.
- Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
- His wife put the bowl down on a chair, and seated herself in another.
- Extract from : « The Copperhead » by Harold Frederic
- Walters drank his bowl down at a gulp, grunted and went on talking.
- Extract from : « Three Soldiers » by John Dos Passos
- Jessie has put her bowl down on the table, and now comes to her side.
- Extract from : « Six Plays » by Florence Henrietta Darwin
- Taking out an empty pipe, he places it mechanically, bowl down, between his dips.
- Extract from : « The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- He sat the bowl down among the plantain leaves, and seizing the pole, plunged the old bucket deep into the well.
- Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens
- Sig watched him until he had finished and set the bowl down on the bench beside him.
- Extract from : « Rick and Ruddy » by Howard R. Garis
- One apple rolled from the bowl down along the floor and under the kitchen stove.
- Extract from : « The Romance of an Old Fool » by Roswell Field
- Marie-Anne drank but one mouthful, then, in evident disgust, set the bowl down.
- Extract from : « The Honor of the Name » by Emile Gaboriau
- Tenpins, ten′pinz, n. a game played in a bowling-alley, the aim being to bowl down ten pins set up at the far end.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) » by Various
Synonyms for bowl down
- bowl down
- bring down
- descend
- dip
- disarrange
- disarray
- disorder
- disturb
- do a pratfall
- down
- drop
- fall headlong
- flatten
- floor
- flop
- go belly up
- go down
- hit the dirt
- jumble
- keel
- keel over
- knock down
- knock over
- level
- lose footing
- lose it
- mess up
- nose-dive
- pitch
- plummet
- plunge
- roll
- sag
- skid
- slip
- slump
- spill
- stumble
- take a header
- tip over
- topple
- toss
- trip
- unsettle
- upset
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