knockout

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈnɑˌkaʊt/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A blow or hit that renders a person unconscious, especially in boxing or other combat sports.; A person or thing that is strikingly attractive or impressive.; A tournament format in which a participant is eliminated after a single loss.; The act of rendering something inoperative or ineffective; the disabling of a system or mechanism.; In genetics, the inactivation or deletion of a specific gene in an organism.
  2. adjective
    Capable of rendering someone unconscious; delivering a knockout blow.; Strikingly attractive or impressive; stunning.; Relating to a single-elimination tournament format.; Designed to inactivate or disable something.
  3. verb
    To render someone unconscious with a blow, especially in boxing.; To eliminate or remove something from operation or competition.; To produce or complete something quickly and efficiently.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: knockouts

Collocations

knockout blowknockout punchknockout roundtechnical knockoutknockout dropsknockout victory

Derivatives

knockouts

Synonyms

KOhaymakerstunnerdevastatingstunning

Commonly confused

knock out
EN: 'Knock out' (two words) is the verb phrase meaning to render unconscious or eliminate; 'knockout' (one word) is the noun or adjective form.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember that 'knockout' is one word when used as a noun or adjective (a knockout punch), but two words when used as a verb (they knocked him out).

💬 Examples

  1. The boxer won the match with a devastating knockout in the third round.

  2. She looked like a knockout in that red dress at the gala.

  3. The team was eliminated in the knockout stage of the World Cup.

  4. The missile caused a knockout of the enemy's communication network.

  5. Researchers created a knockout mouse to study the effects of the missing gene.

  6. He landed a knockout punch that ended the fight instantly.

  7. The band gave a knockout performance that had the audience on their feet.

  8. The knockout rounds of the competition begin next week.

  9. The knockout drops were slipped into his drink without his knowledge.

  10. The champion knocked out his challenger in the second round.