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knockdown

knockdown noun: an act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.

Noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

  1. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
  2. An overwhelming blow.
  3. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer.
  4. A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
  5. The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
  6. The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
  7. a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
    • Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown.2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC
  8. A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
    • We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent.1999, Scott Skelton, Jim Benson, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour, page 294
  9. A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
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Verb

knockdown (third-person singular simple present knockdowns, present participle knockdowning, simple past and past participle knockdowned)

  1. To employ the knockdown technique

Adjective

knockdown (not comparable)

  1. Powerful enough to overwhelm.
    • a knockdown argument
    • a knockdown blow
  2. Reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer.
  3. Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.
    • knockdown furniture
  4. To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.

knockdown meaning in Urdu and Malay

knockdown in Urdu

ڈھانا, نیچے گرا دینا, پٹخنی دینا, پٹخنا, پٹخنی

knockdown in Malay

act or the condition of being knocked down
tumbuk rebah

Synonyms of knockdown

Forms of knockdown

Noun
pluralknockdowns
Verb
third-person singular presentknockdowns
present participleknockdowning
past participleknockdowned
pastknockdowned

Plural of knockdown: knockdowns

Origin of knockdown

From knock + down.

Words formed from knockdown

Questions about knockdown

What does knockdown mean?
Knockdown means an act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
What is knockdown in Urdu?
Knockdown in Urdu is ڈھانا, نیچے گرا دینا, پٹخنی دینا. See Knockdown meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is knockdown?
Knockdown can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
What is the plural of knockdown?
The plural of knockdown is knockdowns.

Words near knockdown in the dictionary

  1. knockbacks
  2. knockbuster
  3. knockbusters
  4. Knockcloghrim
  5. Knockcroghery
  6. knockdown
  7. knockdown-dragout
  8. knockdown-dragouts
  9. knockdowned
  10. knockdowning
  11. knockdowns

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knockdown (page history and authors); knockdown (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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