knock out
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To strike or render unconscious: To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- To strike or render unconscious: To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
- To strike or render unconscious: To put to sleep.
- To strike or render unconscious: To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- To strike or render unconscious: To exhaust.
- To strike or render unconscious: To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- To strike or render unconscious: To defeat or kill (someone).
- To strike or render unconscious: To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- To strike or render unconscious: To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- To leave college after hours—after half-past ten at night when the doors have been locked.
- To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To sell.
Noun
- Alternative form of knockout.
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