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 When the flames were knocked down, firefighters determined no one was injured, King said. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 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 Young was knocked down when pitcher Nolan McLean struck him on the head with a knee when the two converged for Justin Crawford's slow grounder in the sixth. — CBS News, 18 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 The motion was knocked down by Senate Republicans, and the proposal never reached a vote. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026 Itauma had never needed to go past the sixth round in his first 14 professional bouts and tired visibly after taking command of the early rounds, with Hrgovic absorbing a barrage of hits even after being knocked down in the second round. — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026

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Ravens earned the first win of the night In a thrilling twist, the Ravens actually captured our attention by narrowly avoiding overtime with a field goal in the final second of the game!

— Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

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Inside look The new coaster expands on the footprint of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, which closed in August 2025 and was dismantled soon thereafter.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
The council's leadership was dismantled in January when the UAE quit Yemen.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of dismantled

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In the day's other National Women's Soccer League matches, Gotham FC downed the Chicago Stars 3-1; and the San Diego Wave shut out Racing Louisville 2-0.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Ferry services on Cape Cod and in Rhode Island were disrupted, and Amtrak canceled several trains due to the weather and downed wires.

— Scott Simon, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of downed

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In fact, a 2025 study found that 28 percent of people with telogen effluvium had reduced ferritin levels, while no one in the control group had a deficiency.

— Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
By 2020, however, it had been reduced to a century-and-a-half-old ruin running a mile along the River Lee and in the midst of condo conversion.

— Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of reduced

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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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If the two are disconnected, the problem is not individual performance.

— Melanie Subin, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Despite such justifications, these cuts, closures and layoffs have caused morale to plummet at Goddard, some current workers say, and have left management increasingly disconnected from the research center’s day-to-day operations.

— Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

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Rooms Since its 2023 renovation, the hotel’s capacity decreased from 104 rooms to just 80, made up of 44 rooms and 36 suites, all of which have gained a generous amount of space.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
The results revealed that the device’s electrical behavior changed consistently as the humidity decreased.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026