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Princeton's WordNet

  1. knock-down(a), powerfulverb

    strong enough to knock down or overwhelm

    "a knock-down blow"

  2. down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull downverb

    cause to come or go down

    "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

  3. deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floorverb

    knock down with force

    "He decked his opponent"

  4. blast, knock downverb

    shatter as if by explosion

GCIDE

  1. Knock downnoun

    To take apart; to dissassemble; as, to knock down a rifle for cleaning.

  2. Knock downnoun

    To reduce or discount the price of; as, the dresses were knocked down to twenty dollars.

  3. Knock downnoun

    To earn (an income).

  4. Knock downnoun

    To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock of the auctioneer's hammer; to sell at an auction; as, the vase was knocked down at two thousand dollars.

Wiktionary

  1. knock downverb

    To hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls

  2. knock downverb

    To demolish.

  3. knock downverb

    At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.

  4. knock downverb

    To reduce the price of.

  5. knock downverb

    To drink fast

ChatGPT

  1. knock down

    Knock down refers to the act of disassembling or dismantling something, usually a structure or an object. It can also mean to strike or hit something or someone hard enough to cause them to fall. In a figurative sense, it can refer to reducing or decreasing something, such as prices or arguments.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of knock down in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of knock down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of knock down in a Sentence

  1. Jayson Tatum:

    We’re not where we want to be, the more we can play with pace, guys will get easier looks. We’ll knock down some shots.

  2. Mo Fathelbab:

    I'm a Muslim-American and I'm tired of the rampant Islamophobia overtaking the campaign, and until Muslim Mel Brooks appears on the scene to comically knock down Trump with our version of 'The Producers,' this is the next best thing.

  3. Manny Pacquiao:

    The knock down was a big factor.

  4. Joseph Wu:

    The Apple Daily in Hong Kong is a symbol of independent journalism, and the Chinese government's motivation is to knock down that symbol. It is very sad for me to see what's happening, taiwan is already a democracy.

  5. Robert Sykes:

    Gwyneth Paltrow was skiing out of control, what Ms. Paltrow did that day was knock down Terry Sanderson, pick herself up, dust herself off and ski off without rendering any help.


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