knock down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks down
form: knocking down
form: knocked down
form: knocked down
Senses: examples: text: As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it.
text: He was out tomcatting one night / When he started a big fight / And a big policeman came and knocked him down.
ref: 1977, Sonny James, “In the Jailhouse Now”, in Sonny James In Prison, In Person:
text: I won't surrender / I will fight better / You lock me out, you knock me down / But I will find my way around
ref: 2012, Ingrid Michaelson, “This Is War”, in Human Again:
synonyms: level
glosses: To hit or collide with
To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
examples: text: We knocked down the garden shed when we moved.
synonyms: level
glosses: To hit or collide with
To demolish.
examples: text: They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it.
synonyms: level
glosses: To hit or collide with
To reduce the price of.
examples: text: The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required.
synonyms: level
glosses: To hit or collide with
To disassemble for shipment.
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To acquire money, especially illicitly
To accumulate money, usually through crime.
glosses: To acquire money, especially illicitly
To embezzle.
examples: text: I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.
glosses: To drink or party
To drink fast.
glosses: To drink or party
To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
examples: text: They click their glasses and knock down the toast.
ref: 1954, H. C. N. de Lanerolle, "Well, Mudaliyar!" and Other Plays (page 179)
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
To nominate (someone) to speak.
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
examples: The judge knocked the award down to a half-million.
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
To reject or override a decision.
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
examples: text: The picture was knocked down for £50.
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
examples: text: She had to wait for the end of the sale before these matters were put up, and as the auctioneer was in a hurry to get the sale over, and most of the bidders had left, she got a full set of servant's bedroom furniture knocked down to her for five pounds[.]
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74:
glosses: To choose, declare or approve.
To sell.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.
Synonyms: sense: hit or knock (something) so that it falls
word: knock over
sense: demolish
word: demolish
sense: demolish
word: destroy
sense: declare something sold at an auction with a blow from the gavel
word: sell
sense: reduce the price of
word: reduce