kayoed

verb

past tense of kayo
as in knocked out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kayoed
  1. knocked out
  2. felled
  3. floored
  4. downed
  5. knocked over
  6. prostrated
  7. leveled
  8. toppled
Verb
  • Oklahoma City won the championship two years ago, and they were knocked out by the Spurs last year.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Had Coker scored, Tremble would have been the boxer who got knocked out.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of knocked out
Verb
  • Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of felled
Verb
  • Miguel Carrizoza had just stood up after being floored by a right hook and still looked unsteady on his feet.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Hayne was floored instantly by the volume and verbiage of an NFL playbook, all while he was being taught the nuances of playing running back by assistant coach and 49ers legend Tom Rathman, who also worked with him as a punt returner.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of floored
Verb
  • The crisis capped a week of severe weather in which rain swamped dozens of homes in Utah and tornadoes blew off roofs, knocked trees onto houses and downed power lines in Arizona.
    — MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Even so, the government abruptly downed hundreds of trees on the course with little warning earlier this month, which critics worry was a pretext for beginning renovations.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of downed
Verb
  • Another woman also said she was almost knocked over and was afraid she'd be hurt, Curtis said.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Regional Parks Department said on social media that at least 10 light poles and several street signs were knocked over.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of knocked over
Verb
  • So is Sweden’s Yasin Ayari, who prostrated himself on the field to thank God after the first of his two goals in a victory Sunday over Tunisia — his father’s homeland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Groypers believe that for decades America has prostrated itself to immigrants and foreign nations at the expense of its own languishing citizens.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of prostrated
Verb
  • This includes legal threats that Theranos’ lawyers leveled against him as well as against two of his sources, Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, Qatar has been frustrated by allegations leveled by Israeli political leaders that its payments to Gaza had helped finance the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of leveled
Verb
  • Strong winds toppled trees in Flagstaff and Mesa, with some landing on walls and carports.
    — Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Analysts say the country's security crisis has worsened since the military toppled the country’s government in July 2023.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of toppled
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