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Definition: TO KNOCK DOWN |
TO KNOCK DOWN1. (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off. |
Crosswords: TO KNOCK DOWN |
| English words defined with "TO KNOCK DOWN": knock-down ♦ ninepin ball ♦ powerful ♦ skittle ball. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Chicago police car moving in to knock down a burning cross after African-American family moved into a previously all white neighborhood. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "TO KNOCK DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | niederschlagen (beat down, cast down, down, fell, flatten, knock down, knockdown, lower, precipitate, put down, quell, suppress, to condense, to knockdown, turn down, waive), überfahren (come over, cross over, drive over, ferry across, go over, go through, knock down, overrun, run over, take across, to run down, to run over). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | szétszerel (disassemble, to disassemble, to dismount), odaítél (adjudicate, award, to adjudge, to adjudicate, to award), lerombol (bulldoze, demolish, lay low, rase, raze, ruin, to break down, to demolish, to destroy, to lay flat, to lay low, to pull down, to tear down, to vandalize), lebont (tear down, to break down, to degrade, to demolish, to disassemble, to dismantle, to pull down, to rip, to unclinch, unbuild), földhöz vág (knock down, threw, thrown, to floor, to lay low, to throw). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | "ち落す (to lop off, to shoot down), "ち落とす (to lop off, to shoot down), "ち'す (to defeat), "ちのめす (to beatup), 殴り'す , 'ち落とす (to lop off, to shoot down), 張り飛ばす (to send flying), 張り'す , 'す (to beat, to blow down, to bring down, to cheat, to defeat, to fell, to kill, to leave unpaid, to overthrow, to ruin, to throw down, to trip up), 叩き落とす (to knock off), 叩き伏せる (to utterly defeat), 叩きのめす . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | たたきおとす (to knock off), たたきふせる (to utterly defeat), たたきのめす, たおす (to beat, to blow down, to bring down, to cheat, to defeat, to fell, to kill, to leave unpaid, to overthrow, to ruin, to throw down, to trip up), なぐりたおす, うちたおす (to defeat), うちおとす (to lop off, to shoot down), うちのめす (to beatup), ぶちのめす (to beatup), はりたおす, はりとばす (to send flying). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay ockknay ownday | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dub, dun. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | prosterno. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-k-k-n-n-o-o-o-t-w" | |
-2 letters: knockdown. | |
-3 letters: conodont. | |
-5 letters: wonton. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      4B 4E 4F 43 4B      44 4F 57 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01001011 01001110 01001111 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   K N O C K   D O W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      004B 004E 004F 0043 004B      0044 004F 0057 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544924548493745238495748 |
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