Synonyms for knocked out
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : nok |
| Phonetic Transcription : nÉ’k |
Définition of knocked out
Origin :- Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), "to pound, beat; knock (on a door)," likely of imitative origin. Meaning "deprecate, put down" is from 1892. Related: Knocked; knocking. Knock-kneed first attested 1774. Knock-down, drag-out is from 1827. Command knock it off "stop it" is first recorded 1880, perhaps from auctioneer's term for "dispose of quickly:"
- At the commencement of the sales, he gave every one that wanted to purchase a paper containing a description of the lands that were to be sold; and, as the sales were cried, he called over the numbers and described the land; and when it got up to one dollar and a quarter an acre, if no body bid, after it was cried two or three times, he would say, knock it off, knock it off. [U.S. Senate record, 1834]
- verb knock unconscious
- Finally had a row with his brother, and was knocked out in the first round.
- Extract from : « Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date » by Anonymous
- If we do not grow our own food, we could be knocked out of time in the first round.
- Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
- The 'Langford' knocked out the gunboat 'Smith' in three rounds.
- Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 » by Various
- There was a fellow (amongst others of the badly hurt) who had had his eye all but knocked out.
- Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
- Somehow I feel as if the bottom had been knocked out of everything, all at once!
- Extract from : « The Plunderer » by Roy Norton
- Grant is knocked out for some time to come, and there's only Hooker left to depend on.
- Extract from : « Rival Pitchers of Oakdale » by Morgan Scott
- I was—knocked out—when I read the note you slipped me after supper.
- Extract from : « The Straw » by Eugene O'Neill
- The wind had been knocked out of him, but otherwise he was uninjured.
- Extract from : « For the Liberty of Texas » by Edward Stratemeyer
- It had been the "zip" that had knocked out the five Leopards.
- Extract from : « The Day of the Boomer Dukes » by Frederik Pohl
- He could easily have done that during the time I was knocked out.
- Extract from : « From Farm to Fortune » by Horatio Alger Jr.
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- technical knockout
- the knocks
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