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knock under

knock under verb: to acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.

Verb

knock under (third-person singular simple present knocks under, present participle knocking under, simple past and past participle knocked under)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.
    • I pull the second best trigger in this county. I knock under to Natty Bumppo there, sin' he shot the pigeon.1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XIV, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC, page 209
    • When he heard this news of Beatrix's engagement, Colonel Eſmond knocked under to his fate, and reſolved to ſurrender his ſword, that could win him nothing now he cared for; […]1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “I Come to an End of My Battles and Bruises”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 4
  2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To die.

knock under meaning in Urdu

knock under in Urdu

ہار مان جانا, قبول کر لینا

Forms of knock under

third-person singular presentknocks under
present participleknocking under
past participleknocked under
pastknocked under

Origin of knock under

Perhaps from the old practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. Compare knuckle under

Questions about knock under

What does knock under mean?
Knock under means to acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.
What is knock under in Urdu?
Knock under in Urdu is ہار مان جانا, قبول کر لینا. See Knock under meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is knock under?
Knock under is a verb.
What is the past tense of knock under?
The past tense of knock under is knocked under.

Words near knock under in the dictionary

  1. knock the living daylights out of
  2. knock the persimmon
  3. knock the stuffing out of
  4. knock the wind out of someone's sails
  5. knock together
  6. knock under
  7. knock up
  8. knock wood
  9. knock-'em-downs
  10. knock-about
  11. knock-and-announce

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knock under (page history and authors); knock under (Urdu Wiktionary) (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.

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