floored

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. provided with a floor
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

floored \floored\ adj.

1.provided with a floor. ceilinged [WordNet 1.5]

2.knocked down to the floor or ground. [PJC]

3.defeated; overwhelmed. [PJC]

4.suprised and confounded; nonplused; as, I was floored by the brilliance of the solution. [PJC]

Floor \Floor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Floored; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooring.]

1.To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards. [1913 Webster]

2.To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. [1913 Webster]

Floored or crushed by him.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]

3.To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

I've floored my little-go work.— T. Hughes.[1913 Webster]
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