knock down

verb knocks down · knocking down · knocked down

1. transitive To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls. As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it.

   Similar: level, knock over

2. transitive To demolish. We knocked down the garden shed when we moved.

   Similar: level, demolish, destroy

3. informal, transitive To reduce the price of. They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it.

   Similar: level, reduce

4. transitive To disassemble for shipment. The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required.

   Similar: level

5. transitive To accumulate money, usually through crime.
6. transitive To embezzle.
7. informal, transitive To drink fast. I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.
8. Australia, slang, transitive To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
9. transitive To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table. They click their glasses and knock down the toast.
10. archaic, transitive To nominate (someone) to speak.
11. Australia, New Zealand, transitive To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
12. transitive To reject or override a decision. The judge knocked the award down to a half-million.
13. transitive To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
14. transitive At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel. The picture was knocked down for £50.

    Similar: sell

15. transitive To sell. She had to wait for the end of the sale before these matters were put up, and as the auctioneer was in a hurry to get the sale over, and most of the bidders had left, she got a full set of servant's bedroom furniture knocked down to her for five pounds[.]
16. dated To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point.
17. transitive To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.