bowled

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəʊld/, [bɒʊɫd]
• (doll–dole merger) IPA^(key): /bɒld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊld/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /bold/
• (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /bould/
• Rhymes: -əʊld
• Homophone: bold

Verb

bowled

1. simple past and past participle of bowl

Adjective

bowled (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in combination) Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:

     a large brown-stemmed silver-bowled pipe

2. (cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

Derived terms

• bowled around the legs
• caught and bowled
• unbowled

Anagrams

• blowed