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knock out someone
(HIT) — phrasal verb with knock /nɑk/ verbDefinition
› to hit someone so that the person becomes unconscious, or to cause someone to go to sleep: His fall from the ladder knocked him out. Those sleeping pills knocked me out. › If something such as a system or piece of equipment is knocked out by something else, it stops operating: The lightning knocked out our electricity.
(Definition of knock out someone (HIT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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