floor
noun
that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
had floored
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past perfectof floor.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She said the diagnosis had "floored" her and she had relied on counselling services to keep her going.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
It sprinted off a double bottom near the $50 mark in April 2025, the level where it had floored out in March 2020, near the Covid-era lows.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
The Briton had floored Wilder in the third and fifth rounds and had his opponent pinned in the corner in the seventh when the towel came in to hand Wilder his first loss.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2021
The new and horribly unique depression which had floored him earlier in the day had not left.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
"I stuck to the churches," says another, "I had floored seventeen by one o'clock."
From The Roman Question by Edmond About
