Crossword clues for knocked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knock \Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knocked (n[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Knocking.] [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian, cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka. Cf. Knack.]
To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
--Bacon.-
To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
--Dryden.Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
--Matt. vii. 7. -
To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously. [Slang, U. S.]
To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] ``Knocking about town.''
--W. Irving.To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. ``The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service.''
--De Quincey.To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist.
To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. ``Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate.''
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: knock)
Usage examples of "knocked".
The girl went up to the gate and finding it locked knocked on it impatiently with the iron ring of the padlock.
And Colibri was going with him, too, but to escape the sultry heat she hid, under the boat and from time to time knocked on the bottom of it.
After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang again, still no answer.
It was the doubt as to the reality of the whole thing that knocked me over.
When the man had fairly gone, we three crossed the street and knocked at the door.
If we are to be knocked on the head, all I have to say is, that I hope we get a little shooting first, eh, Good?
Shortly after this somebody knocked me down, and I remember no more of that charge.
The dead body of the Kukuana soldier, or rather what had appeared to be his dead body, suddenly sprang up, knocked Good head over heels off the ant-heap, and began to spear him.
Also my head was aching violently from the blow I had received in the morning, when I was knocked senseless.
Captain Nemo pointed out the hideous crustacean, which a blow from the butt end of the gun knocked over, and I saw the horrible claws of the monster writhe in terrible convulsions.
Henfrey as he passed the prostrate Huxter, and, coming round the corner to join the tumult, was promptly knocked off his feet into an indecorous sprawl.
He yelled, struggled to regain his feet, was knocked against and thrown on all fours again, and became aware that he was involved not in a capture, but a rout.
He had snatched at the money forthwith and had been knocked headlong, and when he had got to his feet the butterfly money had vanished.
By this time I knew he was alone in the house, and so I made no more ado, but knocked him on the head.
Detective-Inspector Weymouth raised his eyebrows and carefully knocked the ash from his cigar.