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keeling over

VERB

fall, faint

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pass out

WEAK

black out capsize collapse drop founder go down overturn pitch plunge slump swoon topple tumble upset

Antonyms

WEAK

stand straighten

Example Sentences

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The only way to deploy this exhausting strategy without keeling over is to be fit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

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

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025

On Facebook, Margaret Renee Grimes Clack shared a video of a large tree keeling over in front of her home in Panama City.

From Fox News • Oct. 11, 2018

I leave the house but have to sit down every 10 minutes for fear of keeling over.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2017

Something had fallen, but it couldn’t be her, and the great seraph couldn’t be keeling over.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor