KNOCKED OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knocked out mean? 

• KNOCKED OUT (adjective)
  The adjective KNOCKED OUT has 1 sense:

1. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

  Familiarity information: KNOCKED OUT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOCKED OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

Synonyms:

kayoed; knocked out; KO'd; out; stunned

Similar:

unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)

 Context examples 

Captain Smollett rose from his seat and knocked out the ashes of his pipe in the palm of his left hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was a tall man, full-bearded, with spectacles, one glass of which had been knocked out.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he looked such a very obdurate butcher as he stood scraping the great block in the shop, and moreover, his appearance was so little improved by the loss of a front tooth which I had knocked out, that I thought it best to make no advances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

However, an unlucky school-boy aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence, that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpkin, but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten, and turned out of the room.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was taken out from under the ruins, alive, but sadly hurt: a beam had fallen in such a way as to protect him partly; but one eye was knocked out, and one hand so crushed that Mr. Carter, the surgeon, had to amputate it directly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whilst Chandos had been conversing with the two knights a continuous stream of suitors had been ushered in, adventurers seeking to sell their swords and merchants clamoring over some grievance, a ship detained for the carriage of troops, or a tun of sweet wine which had the bottom knocked out by a troop of thirsty archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a porch at the door, and under this porch the little spring welled up into an artificial basin of a rather odd kind—no other than a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out, and sunk to her bearings, as the captain said, among the sand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)