KNOCKED OUT Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

knocked out

verb

past tense of knock out

as in killed

to use up all the physical energy of the entire staff knocked itself out getting the project finished on time

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Recent Examples of knocked out The Rockets went 44-28 and were knocked out in the second round of the playoffs, but the Westbrook experiment next to Harden was done. — Zach Harper, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Forty-nine guest rooms and suites were knocked out of service. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Almost two weeks since power was knocked out in Northwest Indiana, tens of thousands of people were still in the dark on Monday morning. — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 Outages have declined since Wednesday morning, when powerful thunderstorms knocked out electricity to more than 18,000 customers, or over 25% of the utility’s total customers. — Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026 The fire also knocked out power to about 10,000 people, the Reno Gazette Journal reported, citing NV Energy, while classes across nearly all Washoe County schools were canceled Monday. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Rojo Neog left his house in India's Assam state on the evening of July 19 to buy candles after heavy rain knocked out electricity. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Afternoon storms with high winds across Central Arkansas on Monday knocked out power for roughly 27,000 customers, according to Entergy. — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2026 Past winners were also disqualified, which knocked out pie champ Carolina Pie Company and cookie winner SWIRL Dessert Company. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 17 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked out

Verb

Rob and Michelle Reiner were killed on December 14, 2025, and Nick is charged with two counts of murder.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Son of a partisan fighter The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia's disintegration began in 1991.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of killed

Verb

Fellow striker Ricardo Pepi tired out the Australian back line all day.

— Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 20 June 2026
Plus, their fabric and fill are less likely to accrue that ever-darkening yellowish stain that tired goose down pillows acquire over time, thanks to sweat, oils, lotion residues, etc.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of tired

Verb

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausted by around 2033 or 2034.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhausted

Verb

Four lifelong friends, burned out and overdue for a break, escape to a luxury spa retreat for a weekend.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026
That Febreze bottle is empty and the scented candle burned out — the current Giants’ stink punches you right in the nose, mouth and eyes.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of burned out

Verb

Two lawyers can work identical hours in the same organization and experience their jobs in fundamentally different ways — one drained by constant conflict, another by lack of autonomy, another by isolation.

— Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
The song is a lesson about the importance of empathy drained of the feel-good reassurance that might let the listener off the hook.

— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of drained

Verb

The river is particularly dangerous near Hazel Dell Parkway and 106th Street in Carmel, where fast-moving waters washed out a bridge, commissioners said.

— John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2026
Heavy rains hammered Indiana over the past week, causing rivers to crest and setting records as roads and bridges were seriously damaged or washed out entirely by the rushing waters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026