bowled

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bowled

/bəʊld/ UK
[bɒʊɫd] UK
/bɒld/
/boʊld/ US
/bold/ Scotland
/bould/ Wales

Sounds like bold · Rhymes with -əʊld

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of bowl

adjective

in compounds, not comparable Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element. a large brown-stemmed silver-bowled pipe
not comparable (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: basin, trough, arena, stadium, pipe bowl, made, hit wicket, timed out, caught behind, inside out, short, cheaply, fine, in-off, plain ball, saltando

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"bowled." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bowled. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{bowled_2026,
  title = {bowled},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bowled},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}