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cause to come or go down
The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect - shatter as if by explosion
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knock down with force
He decked his opponent
How To Use knock down In A Sentence
- We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.
- But now there are plans to knock down the 1960s building and put three blocks of flats in its place.
- No matter how bad I threw the ball, it was still going to knock down at least one pin.
- This contraption would knock down most of the mallee which would later be burned.
- They are testing combination drugs which will knock down bacterial defences and allow antibiotics to do the work they were born to do.
- It took a whole day of hard effort to knock down the wall.
- To knock down ( an opponent in an athletic contest ) by hooking the neck with an outstretched arm.
- There was a low protecting wall to knock down the heat blasting from the pit of the furnace.
- Now, if he knocks down a single, you knock down a single; if he knocks down two in one triplet, you knock down two in the other triplet; if he knocks down the central kayle in a triplet, you knock down the central one in the other triplet. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
- They punch or bite well above their weight and have been known to knock down rabbits ten times their size. Times, Sunday Times
