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noun

Definition of KOnext
as in knockdown

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KO

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verb

as in to kayo

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Recent Examples of KO
Noun
Saturday’s five-bout card at Sycuan will feature San Diego’s Jonny Mansour (3-0,1 KO). — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 Joshua most recently lost to Daniel Dubois by KO in Sep. 2024 and lost a chance at securing the IBF heavyweight title. — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for KO
  1. knockdown
  2. knockout
  3. knock out
  4. uppercut
  5. knock over
  6. roundhouse
  7. fell
  8. knee
Noun
  • Roach and his team had appealed the decision because Davis took a knee in the ninth round, and it was not ruled a knockdown.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • In the ninth round, Price had Jonas on the canvas, but it was ruled no knockdown by the referee.
    — Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of knockdown
Noun
  • Ali, who was 32 at the time, faced off against the younger Foreman, then 25, for his heavyweight title in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) — ultimately winning by knockout against the then-undefeated Foreman in the eighth round.
    — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The 45-year-old then pulled off one of the most spectacular knockouts in boxing history in 1994, flooring Michael Moorer — 19 years his junior — with one perfect combination to claim Moorer’s two heavyweight belts.
    — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of knockout
Verb
  • Dazed individuals are seen walking among debris in a hallway, with smoke in the air and power knocked out.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The blaze knocked out power to 67,000 customers, though most of it was restored by daybreak, the fire brigade said.
    — BRIAN MELLEY, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of knock out
Noun
  • Only a small percentage of those players could survive Tyson's flurry of instant-knockdown uppercuts and emerge victorious with the undisputed World Video Boxing Association championship.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2025
  • In Salt Lake, that’s the equivalent of an uppercut to the chin.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
Definition of uppercut
Verb
  • In September, Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeast, dumping more than a foot of rain in some locations and knocking over hundreds of thousands of acres of trees across the region.
    — Kiley Price, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
  • And, oh, the shockwave that news sent through L.A., this whole city, knocked over by grief.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2025
Definition of knock over
Noun
  • Excavations in South Ayrshire also unearthed ruins of another 2,600-year-old roundhouse and 3,500-year-old pottery, archaeologists said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Killam unleashed a roundhouse kick for his portrait.
    — T. M. Brown, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of roundhouse
Verb
  • One of the people who lost his job at NOAA in late February was working on models to better predict severe weather, like the storm that felled my tree.
    — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The coalition will be under pressure to deliver results and avoid the infighting that has felled previous governments.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of fell
Noun
  • For a kid who can’t play this season due to a knee injury, junior third baseman/catcher Morgan Reczkiewicz sure is making her presence felt for Oak Forest.
    — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Geoff Sprouse scored 18 points off the bench to lead American, which lost leading scorer Matt Rogers (17.2 points per game) early in the contest to a knee injury.
    — The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of knee

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