as in to down
to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall
the exuberant dog bowled over several children
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The air force downed or suppressed 87.2% of all drones and 73% of missiles during June.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Aug. 2025 -
Xcel Energy scrambled to repair outages in and around the Twin Cities on Tuesday following powerful storms Sunday and Monday that dropped golf ball-size hail and downed trees across much of the state.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
30 July 2025
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The two men then said Smollett paid them to stage the attack, and Smollett was charged with filing a false police report; the charges were later dropped after Smollett paid a fine and did community service.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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Almost a year later, the criminal charges were dropped but the horses were never returned to him.—
Andrew Wimer,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Jenny and Chris Harmon’s house caught on fire last year when construction workers rebuilding a home on the lot next door used a backhoe to knock down a tree, ripping the electrical wires off the couple’s home.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
3 Aug. 2025
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Local activists told The Guardian a settler drove a bulldozer through their land and used the blade of the machine to knock down a resident who asked him to stop.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
29 July 2025
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The audio has been used in nearly 2 million videos, many of which portray chaotic incidents, such as a person getting knocked over by a splash from a water slide or a woman almost getting hit by a rebounding axe at an axe throwing range.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Just one example: When Tom Sandoval punched Jax Taylor, Shay sobbed to Lisa Vanderpump that she had been knocked over in the scuffle.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
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Some things still floor him about the guy who took his money.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
14 Aug. 2025
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The daters Julie Nguyen works with are more likely to be floored by the laziness, spelling errors, and sheer audacity of the people on the other end.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
11 Aug. 2025
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Trees must be felled with dangerous and expensive equipment, dragged up muddy and steep slopes with cables, cut into lengths, loaded onto trucks and hauled.—
William Baldwin,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Bowl (down or over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bowl%20%28down%20or%20over%29. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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