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knock out
Render useless or inoperative, as in The storm knocked out the power .
See knock oneself out .
Make tired, exhaust, as in That sightseeing tour knocked me out .
See knock off , def. 2.
Also, knock out cold . Render unconscious by a blow or some other means. For example, It was just a swinging door, but it knocked her out , or Just one of those sleeping pills can knock you out cold . [Late 1500s]
Example Sentences
What Sanders did — knock out a popular sheriff and district attorney in a law-and-order county — was unprecedented and gave progressive activists a dash of hope that Orange County was changing for the better.
Heathrow is supplied by three substations, but knocking out one caused loss of power to the airport.
“There is a biological reality,†said Essayli, who pointed to a young track athlete from his district who he said was knocked out of a spot on a top team by a trans athlete.
Dave Coulier was doing OK with his chemotherapy for Stage 3 cancer, it seems — until he got knocked out by a common cold.
White, ranked 52nd in the PDC order of merit, had reached his first professional tour final in five years having knocked out world champion Littler in the last 32.
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