KNOCKED OUT Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

knocked out

verb

past tense of knock out

as in killed

to use up all the physical energy of the entire staff knocked itself out getting the project finished on time

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Recent Examples of knocked out She was knocked out in the fourth round in both Toronto and Cincinnati, after being ousted at the same point at Wimbledon. — Brian Mahoney, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026 Key water pipeline serving tourists knocked offline The flooding has also knocked out a water pipeline serving tourists at the national park, leaving it with limited water resources, the park added. — Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 Flooding also knocked out the sole water pipeline that serves tourists and residents at the national park, officials said late Sunday. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026 Williams and Alcaraz, who were both returning from injuries, wowed fans with dazzling rallies and impassioned play in an opening-round win before they were knocked out in the quarterfinals. — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026 The Rockets went 44-28 and were knocked out in the second round of the playoffs, but the Westbrook experiment next to Harden was done. — Zach Harper, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Forty-nine guest rooms and suites were knocked out of service. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Almost two weeks since power was knocked out in Northwest Indiana, tens of thousands of people were still in the dark on Monday morning. — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 The fire also knocked out power to about 10,000 people, the Reno Gazette Journal reported, citing NV Energy, while classes across nearly all Washoe County schools were canceled Monday. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked out

Verb

Rob and Michelle Reiner were killed on December 14, 2025, and Nick is charged with two counts of murder.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Son of a partisan fighter The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia's disintegration began in 1991.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of killed

Verb

Fellow striker Ricardo Pepi tired out the Australian back line all day.

— Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 20 June 2026
Plus, their fabric and fill are less likely to accrue that ever-darkening yellowish stain that tired goose down pillows acquire over time, thanks to sweat, oils, lotion residues, etc.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of tired

Verb

Deery becomes the latest player who exhausted their eligibility to sue for an extra year of eligibility.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026
Your eyes will thank you College students often fall asleep without removing their contacts, especially when exhausted from late-night studying or over-intoxicated from partying.

— Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhausted

Verb

If your team achieves target KPIs and bigger business goals but is constantly stressed and burned out because of your leadership style, that success will likely only go so far and last so long.

— Sam Talya, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
For readers already burned out on pumpkin spice, these releases offer a way to try something new without straying far from the coffee-shop menus that define the season.

— Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of burned out

Verb

The attackers used the IP addresses to host a smart contract that drained about $235,000 in bitcoin from people trying to visit the Celer Bridge cryptocurrency exchange.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
In France, for example, officials have drained glacier lakes to head off potential flooding, Gagliardini says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of drained

Verb

Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges.

— Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
But globular cluster streams form deep inside their host galaxy, where they are washed out by brighter, more crowded starlight.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026