Knock Out

Definition: Knock Out

Knock Out

Verb

1. Eliminate; "knock out a target".

2. Knock unconscious or senseless.

3. Destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out".

4. Overwhelm with admiration; "All the guys were knocked out by her charm".

5. Empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out; "knocked out a pipe".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Knock Out

Crosswords: Knock Out

You guys managed to knock out the power on the entire block (The 'burbs; writing credit: Dana Olsen)

Is it your proposal, Mr. Rumson, that we knock out the stage driver, steal a coach, and kidnap six women (Paint Your Wagon; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky; Alan Jay Lerner)

Knock Out (1973)

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Books

• Jorge Olavarría : historia de la baja pasión que lo condujo al knock out (reference)

• The Cajun Bomber's Knock Out Cookbook, Boxing to Beignets (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way. Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September. Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Oregon, a knock out. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "knock out": To knock out. Additional references.

Albanian

shtang (astound, dumbfound, fascinate, paralyse, paralyze, petrify), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), përgënjeshtroj (confute, disprove, refute, retort), nxjerr nokaut, hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏نفض (adjourn, kick up, shake, split, throw up), ‏قصا (drive away, mop up, relegate, stump, take away), ‏عمل بعجلة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

смайвам (amaze, baffle, bedazzle, dazzle, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, kill, knock, rock, stagger, stun), нокаутирам (lay out, out), елиминирам (eliminate, wash out), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), избивам (beat out, burst out, erupt, massacre, slaughter, start out, strike). (various references)

Czech

vytlouci. (various references)

Danish

udbanke (to demould, to knock out). (various references)

Dutch

uitvormen (to demould, to knock out), uittikken (to demould, to knock out). (various references)

Finnish

tyrmätä, lyödä puhki (knock a hole in, knock in). (various references)

French

souffler, faire en vitesse, faire � la hâte, battre (knock down, knock off), éliminer, écraser (knock down). (various references)

German

knacken (break into, burgle, click, crack, crackle, creak, crush, pop, rumble, rumbling, snap, to crack, work out), schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flap, flog, hack out, hit, kick, kill, knock, knock about, knock around, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, spank, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wallop, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), herausschlagen (bang out, dislodge, gush, hammer out, hew out, leap out), erledigen (accomodate, attend, carry out, crank through, deal with, dispatch, do in, end, finish, finish off, get through with, handle, process, release, ruin, see to, settle, shatter, take care of, terminate, to attend, to deal with, to dispose, to finish, to see to, to take care of, wear out), einschlagen (adopt, bang in, bash down, bash in, beat in, catch on, cover, drive home, drive in, drive into, enter on, envelop, fell, follow, hammer down, hammer in, hit, hit out, knock in, pursue, sink in, smash down, smash in, stave in, strike, take, take up, to stave in, turn, turn up, wrap up), bewusstlos schlagen, besiegen (beat, conquer, defeat, discomfit, down, overcome, overthrow, put down, repress, subdue, thrash, to conquer, to defeat, to discomfit, vanquish, win over), austreiben (cast out, chase away, drive away, drive out, exorcise, expel, space out, sprout, to drive out, turn out), ausschlagen (be deflected, beat out, bowl out, bud, burgeon, germinate, hit out, kick, kick out, lash out, redound, refuse, reject, start to bud, swing round, turn down, waive), ausklopfen (beat, beat the dust out of), abschießen (discharge, fire, fire off, kick off, launch, let off, loose off, pick off, shoot down, shoot in, shoot off, to bring down, to launch). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω νοκ-άουτ, ρίχνω νοκάουτ, χαριστική βολή, ακαταγώνιστοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מכת מחץ, מ�"לומת מחץ, מ�'ור (destruction, turnover), למ�'ר (cast down, defeat, knife, overthrow, overturn, rout), ל�"לום במכ�", ס� וקרת (punch). (various references)

Hungarian

kihagy (elide, eliminate, leave out, miss out, omit, to balk, to edit out, to eliminate, to go sour, to intermit, to leave out, to miss out, to sit out), kiütõ, kiütés (huff, kayo, knockout, ko, papula, pimple, rash), kiüt (out, to jog, to knock down, to knock out, to lay out, to out). (various references)

Italian

tramortire (knock, stun), sopraffare (overbear, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, vanquish), abb� ttere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

戛飛ばす (to knock out), 伸す (to extend, to gain influence, to iron, to knock out, to roll out, to smooth out, to spread, to stretch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のす (to extend, to gain influence, to iron, to knock out, to roll out, to smooth out, to spread, to stretch), かっとばす (to knock out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ockknay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

suprimir (burke, crush, cut, dele, dissolve, eliminate, exterminate, fade away, liquidate, obliterate, prune, put down, quash, quell, smother, stop, suppress, throttle, wipe out). (various references)

Romanian

knock-out, scoate din luptã (disable), loviturã doborâtoare, face praf (cook, cut, reduce to powder, squander), face cnocaut, comoarã (duck, gem, hoard, love, mine, precious, riches, spoil, thesaurus, treasure, treasury, wealth), adormi (allay, alleviate, assuage, cheat, delude, die, drop asleep, drop off, fall asleep, go to sleep, hoodwink, lull, narcotize, rock, soften, soothe). (various references)

Russian 

выбивать (chime, dislodge, drive out, emboss). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

onesvestiti, nokautirati (lay out), nokaut (kayo, knockout), nešto izuzetno lepo (knockout). (various references)

Spanish

quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), producir (activate, afford, bear, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring in, carry, cause, develop, father, generate, give, give rise to, induce, lead, originate, pay, produce, put out, raise, result in, return, throw back, to produce, turn out, work, yield), poner fuera de combate (lay out, put out), pasmar (amaze, astonish, astound, blight, dumbfound, faint, flabbergast, freeze, horrify, knock back, stun, stupefy, tarnish), hacer perder el conocimiento, hacer (accomplish, achieve, act, administer, advance, ask, be, bestow, bind, bring, bring in, build, carry out, cause, come, commit, compose, compound, create, cut, cut out, do, draw, drive, drop, effect, emit, enter into, enter up, fabricate, force, form, generate, get, get out, give, go at, hole, keep, lay, lean, level, light, live, live through, lumber, lure on, make, make into, make up, making, observe, offer, pack, pass, pay, perform, perpetrate, place, poke, prosecute, pull, punch, put, put forward, put out, put up, render, set off, tackle, take, take on, think up, throw, throw in, throw out, throw up, tie, to do, to make, to make into, travel, turn out, wet, work, work out), fabricar (achieve, act, brew, carry out, do, fabricate, falsify, make, make up, manufacture, perform, produce, throw in, turn out), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), eliminar (bowl smb. out, cut out, dispose of, do away, do away with, eliminate, excise, make away with, obliterate, obviate, push out, remove, rid, take out, weed, Winkle), dejar sin sentido (stun), dejar para el arrastre, dejar fuera de servicio, aturdir (abash, befuddle, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, distract, drug, fluster, fuddle, intoxicate, muddle, numb, stun, stupefy), agotar (consume, deplete, distress, drain, exhaust, exhaust a well, expend, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, knock up, play out, sap, spend, take out, tire out, use up, waste, wear, wear down, work out). (various references)

Swedish

knocka, slå ut (bud, burst, erupt, pour out, smash, spread over, stump out), slå knockout på, choka (choke, shock), besegra (beat, best, checkmate, conquer, defeat, fight down, flog, hammer, lick, nobble, overcome, overwhelm, pip, vanquish, win over, worst), överväldiga (dazzle, overpower, overwhelm, stun, unman). (various references)

Turkish

yormak (attribute, cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), vurup çıkartmak, tıngırdatmak (make tinkle, strum, thrum, ting), nakavt etmek (kayo, out), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb). (various references)

Ukrainian

вибивати (beat off, drive out, emboss, hammer out, thump), перемогти (draw the winner, fight down, get home, outclass, overcome, pip, prevail, sack, score off, shoot down, whip, worst). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: knockout.

-3 letters: conto, count, knock, knout.

-4 letters: conk, cook, coon, coot, knot, konk, kook, koto, nock, nook, onto, took, toon, tuck, unco, unto.

-5 letters: con, coo, cot, cut, noo, not, nut, oot, out, ton, too, tun.

+1 letter: knockouts.

+2 letters: knockabout.

+3 letters: knockabouts.