| 1 |
[ verb ] cause to come or go down
Examples "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect" "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)At the age of ten , when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop , he was knocked_down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu_Harbor , knocked_down telephone_lines , marooned automobiles , flooded lawns , killed six cows . |
| 2 | |
| * |
|