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floored
[flawrd]
adjective
covered or furnished with a floor.
The house even has a floored attic with two usable rooms.
brought down to the floor or ground; knocked down.
The boxer dealt a finishing blow to his floored opponent.
(of an accelerator pedal) pushed down all the way to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.
In these low-end sports cars there’s still significant lag in response to a floored gas pedal.
nonplussed or puzzled.
The goalie was shy and not interested in the spotlight—he seemed floored when I asked him to sign my son's jersey.
(of an argument) shown to be untenable; overthrown.
You claim to have saved money by not buying a new car, but given how much you’ve spent on repairs, this seems a floored argument.
Stock Exchange, Banking.being, having, or involving a floating interest rate for which a minimum level has been set.
If your mortgage has a floored rate, your interest rate will not drop below that rate even if the base rate falls.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of floor.
Word History and Origins
Origin of floored1
Example Sentences
“I floored it up and over as it collapsed.”
Tom may have chosen the members of the “Bad Thoughts” cast, but that didn’t stop him from being completely floored by their performances.
There was controversy the last time they fought when Usyk was floored in the fifth round but the punch was declared a low blow by the referee.
California Highway Patrol officers were floored by the ‘next level monkey business’ they discovered inside a speeding Rolls-Royce Ghost in Madera County on Monday night.
“They just floored me,” Davis tells The Times of his initial encounter with the group as it opened a show for John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful.
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