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keel over

verb as in fall, faint

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Both men were overcome with emotion during the ceremony, in tears, and Rinderknech keeled over and had to be helped into a chair.

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It’s the humidity, which has spiked to over 80%, that has them feeling ready to keel over between sets.

“I feel fine; I’ll probably keel over after I hang up the phone,” he joked.

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When she was 13 years old, Ms Thomas said she remembered "keeling over in agony" at the back of the classroom.

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"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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