If someone is knocked down or is knocked over by a vehicle or its driver, they are hit by a car and fall to the ground, and are often injured or killed.
He died in hospital after being knocked down by a car. [beVERB-ed PARTICLE]
A drunk driver knocked down and killed two girls. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
A car knocked him over. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
To knock down a building or part of a building means to demolish it.
Why doesn't he just knock the wall down? [VERB noun PARTICLE]
They have since knocked down the shack. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb
To knock down a price or amount means to decrease it.
[mainly US]
The market might abandon the stock, and knock down its price. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
It manages to knock rents down to $1 per square foot. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
regional note: in BRIT, usually use bring down
More Synonyms of knock down
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knock down in British English
verb(tr, adverb)
1.
to strike to the ground with a blow, as in boxing
2.
(in auctions) to declare (an article) sold, as by striking a blow with a gavel
3.
to demolish
4.
to dismantle, for ease of transport
5. informal
to reduce (a price, etc)
6. Australian slang
to spend (a cheque)
7. Australian slang
to drink
adjectiveknockdown(prenominal)
8.
overwhelming; powerful
a knockdown blow
9. mainly British
cheap
I got the table at a knockdown price
10.
easily dismantled
knockdown furniture
nounknockdown
11. US and Australian slang
an introduction
will you give me a knockdown to her?
knock down in American English
1.
to hit so as to cause to fall
2. US
to take apart for convenience in shipping
3.
a.
to sell at auction
b.
to indicate the sale of (an article) at an auction, as by a blow of the auctioneer's hammer
4. Slang
to earn as pay
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More idioms containing
knock down
a knock-down drag-out fight
Examples of 'knock down' in a sentence
knock down
`Oh, well in that case let's just knock down all the prisons.
David Cavanagh MUSIC FOR BOYS (2003)
I will knock down the taxes that we over-pay, the taxes that we then have no say over how they're spent.
Patrick Ness THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON (2003)
In other languages
knock down
British English: knock down /nɒk daʊn/ VERB
To knock down a building or part of a building means to demolish or destroy it.
Why doesn't he just knock the wall down?
American English: knock down
Arabic: يُهَدِّمُ
Brazilian Portuguese: derrubar com uma pancada
Chinese: 击倒
Croatian: srušiti
Czech: strhnout budovu
Danish: slå ned
Dutch: neerhalen
European Spanish: derribar
Finnish: iskeä maahan
French: renverser
German: niederschlagen
Greek: ρίχνω κάτω με ένα χτύπημα
Italian: abbattere
Japanese: 打ち倒す
Korean: 때려 부수다
Norwegian: slå ned
Polish: wywrócić
European Portuguese: derrubar
Romanian: a dărâma
Russian: сносить
Latin American Spanish: derribar
Swedish: slå ner
Thai: ทุบทิ้ง
Turkish: devirmek düşürmek
Ukrainian: зносити
Vietnamese: phá hủy
Chinese translation of 'knock down'
knock down
vt
(= run over) 撞倒 (zhuàngdǎo)
(= demolish) 拆除 (chāichú)
(esp US)[price]减(減) (jiǎn)
See knock
All related terms of 'knock down'
knock over
撞倒 zhuàngdǎo
knock out
( make unconscious : blow, person ) 打昏 dǎhūn ( drug ) 使丧(喪)失知觉(覺) shǐ sàngshī zhījué ( cause to sleep : sedative ) 使入睡 shǐ rùshuì