double over

verb

To bend over deeply at the waist.

“doubled over in pain”

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double upbuckle overdouble
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Meanings

verbdouble over (third-person singular simple present doubles over, present participle doubling over, simple past and past participle doubled over)

present singular third person doubles over · participle present doubling over · participle past doubled over · past doubled over

  1. idiomaticintransitiveTo bend over deeply at the waist.

    doubled over in pain

    3 more examples

    Near-synonyms: double up, buckle over

    A padded knee shattered my balls. I doubled over in the hallway, coughing up blood and yellow stuff I thought might be bile.

    2005, Mike Philbin, CHIMERAWORLD #1, page 113

    “Do you have documents on you?” asked one of the guards. “Good, then we’ll know how to mark your grave if you fall behind the convoy.” The joke made his comrades double over with laughter.

    December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023

    Synonyms: double up, buckle over

  2. transitiveusuallyfabricTo fold in half.

    He doubled over the sheet of paper and wrote something on the back.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo bend over deeply at the waist.

Similar
double upbuckle over

More synonyms by meaning

verbbend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain

Similar
doubledouble up
Broader
bendflex
Also see
buckle overdoubledouble up

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

double over. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20over

MLA

“double over.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20over. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “double over,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20over.

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