verb
1. cause to come or go down (Freq. 5)
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The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
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The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
• Hypernyms: ↑strike
• Hyponyms: ↑submarine
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s somebody
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Something ——s something
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The fighter managed to knock down his opponent
2. knock down with force (Freq. 1)
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He decked his opponent
• Hypernyms: ↑beat
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
3. shatter as if by explosion
• Syn: ↑blast
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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knock down [phrasal verb]
1 knock (someone or something) down or knock down (someone or something)
1 a : to cause (someone or something) to fall to the ground
The storm knocked down [=knocked over] several big trees.
Rowdy fans knocked down the fence.
We're planning to knock down [=remove, demolish] a wall to create a bigger room.
2 informal
2 a knock (something) down or knock down (something) : to reduce or lower (a price, an amount, etc.)
They knocked down the price of the house by 10 percent.
3 knock down (an amount of money) US, informal : to receive (an amount of money) as income or salary
He knocks down almost a million dollars a year.
4 knock down (a shot) or knock (a shot) down basketball : to succeed in making (a shot) especially from a long distance
He was knocking down jump shots.
5 knock (something) down or knock down (something) chiefly US, informal : to say no to (an idea, plan, proposal, etc.) : ↑reject
His boss knocked down [=shot down] all of his ideas.
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Main Entry: ↑knock
Useful english dictionary. 2012.