Synonyms for floored


Grammar : Verb
Spell : flawr, flohr
Phonetic Transcription : flɔr, floʊr

Top 10 synonyms for floored Other synonyms for the word floored

Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for floored

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