Knockdown

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or an instance of knocking down.
  • noun. The condition of being knocked down.
  • noun. An overwhelming blow or shock.
  • noun. Something designed to be easily assembled or disassembled.
  • adjective. Strong enough to knock down or overwhelm; powerful.
  • adjective. Designed to be easily assembled or disassembled.
  • adjective. Reduced.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Such as to knock to the ground; hence, overwhelming; irresistible: as, a knock-down blow; a knock-down argument.
  • Constructed so as to be readily knocked down or taken apart for convenience in transportation; prepared and kept in separate parts, ready to be put together as a whole.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which knocks one down; something that overpowers or overwhelms, as strong liquor; specif., a kind of ale or beer that is very strong.
  • noun. A knocking down; a felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal; a blow that overwhelms; also, a fist fight.
  • noun. Something that knocks down, or takes apart, for packing or removal, as a piece of furniture; also, state of being knocked down, or taken apart.
  • noun. To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows.
  • noun. To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock of the auctioneer's hammer; to sell at an auction.
  • noun. To take apart; to dissassemble.
  • noun. To reduce or discount the price of.
  • noun. To earn (an income).
  • adjective. Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow.
  • adjective. Designating a rivet end to be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the act of knocking down at an auction; specif., designating the price below which an article will not be disposed by the auctioneer.
  • adjective. Made or constructed so as to be capable of being knocked down or taken apart, as for transportation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
  • noun. An overwhelming blow.
  • noun. A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that has been made less active or had its expression reduced.
  • noun. The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
  • noun. The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
  • noun. a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
  • adjective. powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down
  • adjective. reduced in price
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
  • adjective. (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled
  • noun. a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet
  • verb. knock down with force
  • verb. cause to come or go down
  • verb. shatter as if by explosion
  • Word Usage
    "Hey Clay-You believe in "knockdown" power of a bullet?"
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    beat  blow  dash  smash  
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    lockdown  
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