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What (who) is knock down - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Knock-down; Knock down; Knockdown (disambiguation)
knock down
v. (colloq.) (BE) (D; tr.) ('to persuade to reduce a price') to knock down to (I knocked him down to ten pounds)
knock down
1.
If someone is knocked down or is knocked over by a vehicle or its driver, they are hit by a car and fall to the ground, and are often injured or killed.
He died in hospital after being knocked down by a car...
A drunk driver knocked down and killed two girls...
A car knocked him over.
= run over
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P, V P n (not pron), V n P
2.
To knock down a building or part of a building means to demolish it.
Why doesn't he just knock the wall down?...
They have since knocked down the shack.
= pull down
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
3.
The market might abandon the stock, and knock down its price...
It manages to knock rents down to $1 per square foot.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
knock down
1.
Fell, prostrate.
2.
Knock off (by auction).
Wikipedia
Knockdown
Knockdown or knock-down may refer to:
- Knockdown, a situation in full-contact combat sports where a fighter is down or vulnerable, often preliminary to a knockout
- "Knockdown" (Castle), the thirteenth episode of the third season of the TV series Castle
- knock-down fastener
- knock-down furniture
- Knockdown (arcade game)', an arcade game released by Namco
- Knockdown (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- "Knockdown" (song), a song by Alesha Dixon
- KnocDown, a music producer
- Knockdown, a nautical term for a near-capsize
- Knock-down kit, a complete kit needed to assemble a vehicle
- Knockdown resistance, genetic resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in many insect species
- Knockdown texture, a drywall finishing style
- Gene knockdown, a genetic modification technique
Examples of use of knock down
1. They‘re going to knock down the place and rebuild?
2. "Maybe we should knock down some houses," she said.
3. Some families were ordered to knock down their own homes.
4. Agents used an excavating machine Wednesday to knock down a barn.
5. We played knock–down ginger on the very streets that are now flooded with press.