Usually means: Reduce to lower position, status.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word knockdown:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. knockdown: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knockdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knockdown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knockdown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knockdown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knockdown, knockdown: Wordnik
  7. knockdown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knockdown: Wiktionary
  9. knockdown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knockdown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knockdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knockdown, knockdown: Dictionary.com
  13. knockdown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Knockdown (arcade game), Knockdown (boxing), Knockdown (combat sports), Knockdown (song), Knockdown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Knockdown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. knockdown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. knockdown: Rhymezone
  18. Knockdown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. knockdown: Free Dictionary
  20. knockdown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. knockdown: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knockdown: Legal dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knockdown: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knockdown: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knockdown: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See knockdowns as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
noun:  An overwhelming blow.
noun:  (slang, obsolete, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer.
noun:  (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
noun:  (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
noun:  (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
noun:  (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
noun:  (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
noun:  A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
verb:  (genetics) To employ the knockdown technique
adjective:  Powerful enough to overwhelm.
adjective:  Reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer.
adjective:  Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.
adjective:  (of a rivet head) To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.

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