knocked down

verb

Definition of knocked downnext
past tense of knock down
1
as in earned
to receive as return for effort she's knocking down a good salary, but she has to work very hard

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2
as in dismantled
to take apart right after the holidays the stores start to knock down the window displays

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3
as in downed
to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the overexcited dog knocked the toddler down

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4
as in reduced
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent they'll have to knock down the price of those televisions if they expect to sell any

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked down
  1. earned
  2. dismantled
  3. downed
  4. reduced
  5. won
  6. disconnected
  7. gained
  8. reaped
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  • Predecessor Leap was released in July 2022 and has earned 39,000 equivalent album units to date.
    Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The song earned both acts their first top 10 list.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • Over the next thirty years, Nasrallah and his acolytes systemically dismantled and subsumed the sovereign Lebanese government, with even no President since 2022, and wrought havoc on the Lebanese people with little support from the population.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Most of Syria’s tank units and artillery batteries have disbanded, and much of the country’s massive arsenal of chemical weapons, which Damascus began stockpiling in the 1970s to deter Israel, has been dismantled under international supervision.
    Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
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  • Another satellite image from the town shows empty space where homes once were, and downed trees and power lines.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The church in Rutherford County, about 45 minutes from Asheville, has been home for McGinnis, his wife, Katie, and Knox since downed trees damaged their home.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of downed
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  • Duality – On Black Wings stacks for max effectiveness, reduced from 5 to 3 but extend buff duration from 7 to 10 seconds.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement The measure is strongly backed by a group of California prosecutors and large retailers, including Walmart, and aims to overhaul parts of Proposition 47, a measure approved by voters in 2014 that reduced certain drug and property crime penalties.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • Worried about the pace of automation, labor unions have fought and won more transparency from management about new tools in the workplace.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The only National League team that has never won a World Series, San Diego has reached but lost the Fall Classic twice, in 1984 and 1989.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of won
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  • There’s also the perpetual maintenance costs and the chance your road map might lead you into the wilderness, disconnected from the tech mainstream.
    Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • President Biden’s position on the dispute has been reflexively pro-union and disconnected from actual events.
    The Editors, National Review, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of disconnected
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  • The movie, though not exactly shaking up the box office since opening from Utopia in early September, has steadily gained a Film Twitter fanbase of advocates.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Binder had been showing focus group participants a chart of jobs lost and gained during the Great Recession and recovery.
    Zohreen Shah, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • Inside a record-breaking year for the music business in which the 10 most successful acts reaped a collective $3 billion on the road.
    Lisette Voytko-Best, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Interestingly, the group that engaged in both cardio exercise and resistance training reaped the benefits of both types of training.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of reaped
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knocked down

knocked for a loop

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