bowl
/boʊl/ verb B1- To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. · We were bowled rapidly along the road.
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
He/she/it bowls · Past bowled · Past participle bowled · -ing form bowling
Verb forms
- Base form
- bowl
- He/she/it
- bowls
- Past
- bowled
- Past participle
- bowled
- -ing form
- bowling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
She gave him a small bowl of soup.
Chloe thought for a moment while she was finishing her delicious bowl of cereal.
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