KNOCKED DOWN Synonyms: 191 Similar and Opposite Words

knocked down

verb

past tense of knock down

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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as in dismantled

to take apart right after the holidays the stores start to knock down the window displays

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as in downed

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

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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 knocked down As a determined floor correspondent at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he was knocked down on camera by security guards while trying to interview a Georgia delegate whom the guards were removing from the convention floor. — Walter Podrazik, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 Smith Point Park stairs to the surf were wiped out and at Jones Beach, the berm held up but parts of the fishing pier were knocked down. — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 But Willis’ pass was incomplete, after his third down pass was knocked down. — Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026 But to get knocked down, come back and make a play, then a 2-point conversion, this is about him. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Brock Bowers is likely out of this game still, so the passing game gets knocked down a bit. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 This this Invictus community of people who get knocked down but keep getting back up. — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Strong winds from overnight storms knocked down tree limbs and cut power for some residents in the Kansas City area, according to community reports and the National Weather Service. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2026 One is straightforward schadenfreude, the human instinct to ensure those who get a little big for their boots are knocked down a peg or two. — Amitai Winehouse, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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Romero earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from California State University, Long Beach, in addition to her doctorate from UC Riverside.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Formed in 2012, Polaris broke through with 2017’s The Mortal Coil and 2020’s The Death of Me, both of which debuted in the Australian Top 10 and earned ARIA nominations for best hard rock/heavy metal album.

— Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2026

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It is dismantled and set apart from the monster trucks and engines that provide its propulsion.

— Tina M. Campt, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Five years after Standard Oil was dismantled, the increasingly valuable companies ultimately made Rockefeller the world’s first billionaire.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of dismantled

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The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that its air defenses overnight downed 646 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, occupied Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Punter Alec Clark has downed three of his five punts inside the 20 and hasn’t punted more than twice in a game this year.

— PJ Green September 29, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of downed

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To help pay for its tax cuts, the act reduced Medicaid payments by a trillion dollars over the next decade, though it was designed to delay the full impact of the cuts until 2027, after this year’s elections.

— Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
The agency reduced service earlier this year and has proposed more cuts in recent board meetings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Under Kreiz, Mattel also has won new or renewed entertainment licenses, including Disney Princess and Frozen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Toy Story, KPop Demon Hunters and DC.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of won

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The stock’s performance looks especially disconnected from the strength of the underlying business.

— Stephanie Link, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Some fail because of a lack of training; others fail because tools are disconnected from existing systems, governance is overly restrictive or business processes remain unchanged.

— Fabio Caversan, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of disconnected

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David Hearn, the former Olympics canoeist accused of damaging Washington's Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before prosecutors dropped the case, cannot be recharged, a judge has ruled.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
In the 1980s, the UK had 18 refineries, but that has dropped to just four.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of dropped

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This means any slowdown in the labor market could create a more serious consumption problem, with the same households facing slower income growth and decreased access to credit.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
And the number of young people who stayed on medication for six months — already quite low — may have actually decreased.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

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