Usually means: Reduce, collapse, or dismantle something.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word knock down:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knock down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. knock-down: Wordnik
  4. knock down: Wiktionary
  5. knock-down, knock down: Dictionary.com
  6. knock-down: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. Knock-down, Knock down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. knock down: Rhymezone
  9. knock-down, knock down: Free Dictionary
  10. knock-down, knock down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. knock-down, knock down: Dictionary/thesaurus
  12. knock-down, knock down: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock-down, knock down: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock down: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. knock-down, knock down: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Knock down: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (knock down)

verb:  To hit or collide with
verb:  (transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
verb:  (transitive) To demolish.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
verb:  (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.
verb:  To acquire money, especially illicitly
verb:  (transitive) To accumulate money, usually through crime.
verb:  (transitive) To embezzle.
verb:  To drink or party
verb:  (transitive, informal) To drink fast.
verb:  (transitive, slang, Australia) To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
verb:  To choose, declare or approve.
verb:  (transitive) To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To nominate (someone) to speak.
verb:  (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
verb:  (transitive) To reject or override a decision.
verb:  (transitive) To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
verb:  (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
verb:  (dated, rail transport) To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point.
verb:  (transitive, firefighting) To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.

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