knocked
SayNOKT/nɑkt/UK/nɒkt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of knock.
He knocked twice and waited for a reply.
The vase was knocked off the shelf by the startled cat.
Note
A regular form: one -ed spelling serves as both simple past and past participle, so the surrounding words decide which is meant. Standing alone, it is the past tense (she knocked twice). After have it builds the perfect, and after be it forms the passive (the vase was knocked over). It carries every sense of knock, from rapping on a door to the colloquial sense of running something down: the critics knocked the film.
knocked is a form of knock
knock, verb: To rap with the knuckles, especially on wood, to attract attention or seek entry. Full entry
- Spelling
- knock → knocked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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