FLOORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does floored mean? 

• FLOORED (adjective)
  The adjective FLOORED has 1 sense:

1. provided with a floor

  Familiarity information: FLOORED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with a floor

Antonym:

ceilinged (provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface)

 Context examples 

The room was a long and lofty one, stone floored and bare, with a fire at the further end upon which a great pot was boiling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A square oak-floored hall lay beneath them, from which opened the doors of the principal guest-chambers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Sometimes I have risen superior to my difficulties. Sometimes my difficulties have—in short, have floored me. There have been times when I have administered a succession of facers to them; there have been times when they have been too many for me, and I have given in, and said to Mrs. Micawber, in the words of Cato, “Plato, thou reasonest well. It's all up now. I can show fight no more.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Behind him lay the narrow cell, clay-floored and damp, comfortless, profitless and sordid.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of all the moveables in it, I must have been impressed by a certain old bureau of some dark wood in the parlour (the tile-floored kitchen was the general sitting-room), with a retreating top which opened, let down, and became a desk, within which was a large quarto edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)