Word.ws English Dictionary

knock someone out of time

knock someone out of time verb: to beat someone to the point where they are stunned and unable to fight back.

Verb

knock someone out of time (third-person singular simple present knocks someone out of time, present participle knocking someone out of time, simple past and past participle knocked someone out of time)

  1. (dated, slang) To beat someone to the point where they are stunned and unable to fight back.

Forms of knock someone out of time

third-person singular presentknocks someone out of time
present participleknocking someone out of time
past participleknocked someone out of time
pastknocked someone out of time

Questions about knock someone out of time

What does knock someone out of time mean?
Knock someone out of time means to beat someone to the point where they are stunned and unable to fight back.
What part of speech is knock someone out of time?
Knock someone out of time is a verb.
What is the past tense of knock someone out of time?
The past tense of knock someone out of time is knocked someone out of time.

Words near knock someone out of time in the dictionary

  1. knock someone down with a feather
  2. knock someone flat
  3. knock someone for six
  4. knock someone into the middle of next week
  5. knock someone off their perch
  6. knock someone out of time
  7. knock someone over with a feather
  8. knock someone's block off
  9. knock someone's head off
  10. knock someone's lights out
  11. knock someone's socks off

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knock someone out of time (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “knock someone out of time.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/knock_someone_out_of_time. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.