double over

1. 1.

   bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain

   “He doubled and vomited violently”

   Synonymsdoubledouble up

   Broaderbend

Questions about double over

What does double over mean?

double over means "bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain".

What is another word for double over?

Close synonyms include double, double up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double over a common word?

double over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.