KNOCKS OUT Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

knocks out

verb

present tense third-person singular of knock out

as in wears

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 knocks out Eventually, Butch breaks free and knocks out the Gimp, effectively hanging him since he’d been strung up. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026 Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington Beach middle school soccer field, practicing various ways the ham radio operators will help in an earthquake, fire or other disaster that knocks out communications. —

Heather McRea, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026 But will any of that matter come January if Kansas City once again knocks out Buffalo? —

Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025 As Stahl said, anytime there’s a reckless driver, the emergency pipeline collapses and knocks out water flow to the entire area. —

Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025

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Farrell, who also narrates in a soft voice, often wears a look of shy incomprehension, as if a beat behind in translating the world around him, a stranger in a strange land.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Non-inverter ACs feature simpler parts that are cheaper and easier to fix, but the stop-start cycle wears the mechanical parts out faster, so these air conditioners are more prone to frequent repairs and tend to have a shorter lifespan.

— Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 18 June 2026