From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbowl somebody ↔ over phrasal verb1 HIT/BUMP INTOto accidentally hit someone and knock them down because you are running in a place that is full of people or things SYN knock over2 SURPRISEDto surprise, please, or excite someone very much SYN knock out He was bowled over by her beauty. → bowl→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
bowl over• Drain noodles and divide into serving bowls.• Each country will have three hours and minutes to bowl their 50 overs.• The explosion, seconds later, bowled us all over.• The wind would bowl him over.• Things are not all bad and what goes around has come around and bowled me right over.• Mix the Grape Nuts, orange zest, oat flakes, cinnamon and cloves in a bowl and spread over the mixture.• The little magician did take seven wickets but he had to bowl 97 overs to get them.• He had bowled her over when she was seventeen and girls got married. 