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knocked under

knocked under is the simple past and past participle of knock under.

Meaning of knock under

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
  2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To die.

Questions about knocked under

What is knocked under the simple past and past participle of?
Knocked under is the simple past and past participle of knock under.

Words near knocked under in the dictionary

  1. knocked the daylights out of
  2. knocked the living daylights out of
  3. knocked the stuffing out of
  4. knocked the wind out of someone's sails
  5. knocked together
  6. knocked under
  7. knocked up
  8. knocked wood
  9. knockemdowns
  10. knocker
  11. knocker up

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