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knock someone's wind out

knock someone's wind out verb: to cause someone phrenospasm.

Verb

knock someone's wind out (third-person singular simple present knocks someone's wind out, present participle knocking someone's wind out, simple past and past participle knocked someone's wind out)

  1. (idiomatic) To cause someone phrenospasm.

Forms of knock someone's wind out

third-person singular presentknocks someone's wind out
present participleknocking someone's wind out
past participleknocked someone's wind out
pastknocked someone's wind out

Questions about knock someone's wind out

What does knock someone's wind out mean?
Knock someone's wind out means to cause someone phrenospasm.
What part of speech is knock someone's wind out?
Knock someone's wind out is a verb.
What is the past tense of knock someone's wind out?
The past tense of knock someone's wind out is knocked someone's wind out.

Words near knock someone's wind out in the dictionary

  1. knock someone over with a feather
  2. knock someone's block off
  3. knock someone's head off
  4. knock someone's lights out
  5. knock someone's socks off
  6. knock someone's wind out
  7. knock the ball out of the park
  8. knock the corners off
  9. knock the daylight out of
  10. knock the daylights out of
  11. knock the living daylights out of

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