knocked-down
composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
Informal. condensed, abridged, simplified, unadorned, etc.: a knocked-down version of a Broadway musical.
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How to use knocked-down in a sentence
This is a guy who was knocked down with a count of 100, and got up.
The Renegade: Robert Downey Sr. on His Classic Films, Son’s Battle with Drugs, and Bill Cosby | Marlow Stern | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe big danger then is getting tripped or knocked down by other runners.
And we may be knocked down by force of man or nature, but we will never submit.
Inventories alone knocked down the rate of growth by 1.7 percent.
Changes in private inventories knocked down the rate of economic growth by 1.62 percent in the first quarter.
The U.S. Economy Had a Hiccup, Not a Heart Attack, This Year | Daniel Gross | May 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Those whose hoops had been knocked down assembled on one side, close to the side wicket.
Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. KingstonHe was knocked down to a tradesman in the same street—twenty-one shillings the price of this door (mock mahogany).
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles Reade"Repeat, then, your Pater and Ave." Being terrified she hesitated, and was instantly knocked down with a musket.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeFrequent contests of this kind occurred; in one of which, during the first day, I was knocked down.
You must defend me if any Genoese towns are knocked down by firing at enemy's batteries.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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