knock down
Send sprawling down
To knock down is to cause something or someone to fall by striking: The wind knocked down several trees.
At auctions, to knock down is to sell to the highest bidder, from the auctioneer's gavel strike.
Knock-down as an adjective describes furniture sold unassembled, or prices reduced dramatically: knock-down prices.
To knock someone down can also mean to reduce their asking price through negotiation.
Demolish using heavy equipment
- wrecking ballCrane-swung demolition weight
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- implosionViolent collapse inward
- razeDestroy completely
teardown · wreckage · dismantle · topple · flatten · level · destroy · obliterate
Prove something untrue
- rebutDisprove by argument
- disproveProve something untrue
- debunkExpose as false
- counterFlat service surface
challenge · dismantle · defeat · undermine · discredit · demolish · invalidate · critique
Successful contact or strike
floor · deck · flatten · fell · drop · overpower · push over · trip
Reduced price offered
- reduceMake smaller in degree
- lowerReduce or move downward
- slashAngled line or swipe
- markdownReduction in retail price
bargain · haggle · negotiate · deal · undercut · clearance · sale · rebate
Offer to purchase
- gavelSmall ceremonial hammer
- soldExchanged for money
- hammerTool for striking nails
- auctioneerConducts public sales
lot · reserve · bidder · going · gone · award · sale · winning bid
Fragment gradually
- tumbleUncontrolled rolling descent
- fallDescend under gravity
- cave-inUnderground passage collapse
- give wayCollapse or relent
buckle · implode · structural failure · subsidence · sag · breakdown · fall apart · deteriorate
bulldoze
Demolish using heavy equipment
- wrecking ballCrane-swung demolition weight
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- implosionViolent collapse inward
raze · teardown · wreckage · dismantle · topple · flatten · level · destroy · obliterate · sledgehammer
refute
Prove something untrue
counter · challenge · dismantle · defeat · undermine · discredit · demolish · invalidate · critique · expose
hit
Successful contact or strike
shove · floor · deck · flatten · fell · drop · overpower · push over · trip · sweep
discount
Reduced price offered
markdown · bargain · haggle · negotiate · deal · undercut · clearance · sale · rebate · cut
bid
Offer to purchase
auctioneer · lot · reserve · bidder · going · gone · award · sale · winning bid · paddle
crumble
Fragment gradually
give way · buckle · implode · structural failure · subsidence · sag · breakdown · fall apart · deteriorate · weaken
gulp
Hasty, large swallow
- bring downtopple, fell, overthrow, dethrone, oust
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, wreck
- clumsinessclumsiness, clumsy, awkwardness, fumble, stumble
- destruction verbsdestroy, demolish, wreck, ruin, smash
- everyday mistakesslip, typos, trip, spelling errors, fall
- forceful movementspush, shove, thrust, propel, ram