PLUNKED DOWN Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

plunked down

verb

variants or plonked down

past tense of plunk down

as in struck down

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The ban was later struck down by the country’s Constitutional Court, however.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
Sally and Gillian come from a long line of witches and have lived in a resplendent Massachusetts home with their aunts Frances (Stockard Channing) and Jet (Dianne Wiest) ever since a curse struck down their father and led to their mother’s suicide.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of struck down

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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, 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

Definition of knocked down

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Thibodeaux then came over knocked over Jackson remained on the field but was replaced by Caedan Wallace on the next set of team drills.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
Video from the scene showed one car flipped on its side with debris scattered across the sidewalk and a trash can knocked over.

— Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of knocked over

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This is different to me than, say, a re-creation of the Eiffel Tower being plopped into Las Vegas, which is preying on replication as generic spectacle.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
In the comics, Battleworld stitched together all the different worlds and plopped every hero and their variants into a new universe.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026

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