单词 | knock out |
释义 | knock out1. phrasal verb To knock someone out means to cause them to become unconscious or to go to sleep. The three drinks knocked him out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] He had never been knocked out in a professional fight. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] [Also VERB PARTICLE noun]2. phrasal verb If a person or team is knocked out of a competition, they are defeated in a game, so that they take no more part in the competition. The Frenchman has been knocked out in the quarter-finals of the tournament. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] They knocked them out of the League Cup. [VERB noun PARTICLE + of] [Also VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. See also knockout 4. phrasal verb If something is knocked out by enemy action or bad weather, it is destroyed or stops functioning because of it. Our bombers have knocked out the mobile launchers. [VERB PARTICLE noun] A storm has made roads treacherous and knocked out power. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] More Synonyms of knock out See full dictionary entry for knockknock out in American English1. Boxing to defeat (an opponent) by knocking to the ground so that it is not possible to rise before an official count of ten 2. a. to make unconscious b. to make exhausted; tire out 3. to defeat, destroy, etc. 4. Informal to do; make; specif., to compose or write casually or with careless haste 5. Slang to overwhelm with excited delight; thrill Examples of 'knock out' in a sentence |
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