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Knock out
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Meaning
Verb
●
To
strike
or
bump
(someone
or something
) out.
●
To
render
unconscious
, as by a
blow
to the head.
●
In Sleep:
To
put to
sleep.
●
In Sleep:
To
fall asleep
, especially suddenly.
●
To exhaust.
●
In Sleep:
To
complete
, especially
in haste
;
knock
off.
●
To cause a
mechanism
to become
non-functional
by
damaging
or
destroying
it.
●
To
eliminate
from a
contest
or similar.
●
To
communicate
(a
message
) by knocking.
●
In Hunting:
To
lose
the
scent
of
hounds
in fox-hunting.
●
In Universities:
To
leave
college
after hours—after
half-past
ten
at night
when the
doors
have been locked.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
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