Antonyms for floored
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : flawr, flohr |
| Phonetic Transcription : flɔr, floʊr |
Definition of floored
Origin :- early 15c., "to furnish with a floor," from floor (n.). Sense of "puzzle, confound" is 1830, from notion of "knock down to the floor" (1640s). Related: Floored; flooring.
- verb perplex, confound
- I turned and floored a feller that was too pressing, and hollered it was all right too.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- It was a bare place, a shed which had been a stable and was now floored and ceiled.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- As well as I could see by the light of the candle, it was floored, and panelled with black oak.
- Extract from : « A Master of Mysteries » by L. T. Meade
- He floored me at Brasenose: but I bear the old cock no malice.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Harry Revel » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- I thought that would have floored even Talleyrand; but not at all.
- Extract from : « The Rose of Old St. Louis » by Mary Dillon
- He doesn't measure his cups, but he would scorn to be floored by them.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- She had borrowed that phrase from Myra Wilson, and it floored the elder.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The prisoner knew that he was nursing a grudge for the blow that had floored him.
- Extract from : « Crooked Trails and Straight » by William MacLeod Raine
- They are floored with wooden slats and roofed with tar paper.
- Extract from : « Dear Enemy » by Jean Webster
- Many of the artists tried Cobden, and were floored over him.
- Extract from : « The History of "Punch" » by M. H. Spielmann
Synonyms for floored
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