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floored

The correct spelling is floored.

How to pronounce floored

verb

Say it like: Floo-red

The correct spelling is floored. To cover or furnish with a floor. For example: "floor a house with pine boards"

Usage Examples

floor a house with pine boards

As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

Definition

verb

  1. 1.To cover or furnish with a floor.
  2. 2.To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. 3.(driving) To accelerate rapidly.
  4. 4.To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  5. 5.To amaze or greatly surprise.

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