KNOCKED DOWN Synonyms: 191 Similar and Opposite Words

knocked down

verb

past tense of knock down

as in earned

to receive as return for effort she's knocking down a good salary, but she has to work very hard

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as in dismantled

to take apart right after the holidays the stores start to knock down the window displays

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as in downed

to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the overexcited dog knocked the toddler down

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as in reduced

to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent they'll have to knock down the price of those televisions if they expect to sell any

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Recent Examples of knocked down Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked down, beaten, and robbed of her camera equipment by masked settlers in an attack captured on video by other journalists. — Cameron Peters, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026 Further details about what could be knocked down and what could built alongside the stadium are to come. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026 This time, when they were knocked down, the Brewers didn’t stay down. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Courville and Reynolds started filming the neighborhood in 2013, after a redbrick building around the corner on Douglas and Third was knocked down. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026 Orlando received key contributions off the bench from forwards Tristan da Silva (19 points) and Jamal Cain (15) while veteran center Nikola Vucevic knocked down three 3-pointers in his first game with the Magic since 2021. — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 Atlanta gained possession and Angel Reese knocked down two free throws that eventually gave the Dream a 101-98 overtime victory in Game 2 of the second-round series against the Liberty. — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026 The second time was with 13 seconds left in the third quarter when Wisdom Sims knocked down a fourth-down pass from the Purdue 17. — Steve Stein, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 Ribovics surprisingly doesn’t have many knockdowns despite the pace, but he’s rarely been knocked down and hurt himself. — Brett Appley, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Lawmakers were surprised to learn that nearly 1,700 state employees in all departments were paid more than $50,000 in overtime alone, while nearly 2,600 employees earned more than $40,000 in overtime in addition to their salaries.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Their primary race is still regarded as a historic political earthquake, but, in the final tally, Ocasio-Cortez earned fewer than seventeen thousand votes.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of earned

Verb

This series has mirrored the 2004 NBA Finals, when the Detroit Pistons dismantled the Shaq-and-Kobe Lakers through relentless collective force.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
For decades, the novelist Tom McCarthy has dismantled the tropes of realist fiction.

— Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of dismantled

Verb

With night set to fall, many in the area were without power due to outages planned by Southern California Edison in hopes of preventing power lines downed by the winds from sparking fires.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Deja Davis scored on a header early in the second half and the Boston Legacy downed Racing Louisville 2-1 in the National Women's Soccer League on Friday night.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of downed

Verb

Taps won't go dry, experts say, in part because Arizona has already reduced its water use over the years.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
But for Deakins, the work is too dependent on the circumstances of a story, and the people telling it, to be reduced to any one method.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of reduced

Verb

But these programs are disconnected and spread out across the state, creating a situation where students in one part of Connecticut may have access to opportunities that are walled off from students living elsewhere.

— P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
The team also demonstrated that the sheet could reconstruct its overall shape even after some fibers were cut or disconnected.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of disconnected

Verb

Seckler explains that young people’s trust in institutions and companies has dropped.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Moody's, citing PitchBook data, said private equity distributions dropped from more than 30% of starting net asset value in 2022 to about 12% today.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of dropped

Verb

Now the prevalence of malaria is around 7%, and deaths of children under five decreased by 78%.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
The definitive study of feedback, Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi’s meta-analysis of 23,663 observations, found that over a third of feedback interventions decreased performance.

— Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026