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flooring

The correct spelling is flooring.

How to pronounce flooring

verb

Say it like: Floo-rin-g

The correct spelling is flooring. 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

Meanings

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.

noun

  1. 1.A floor.
  2. 2.A material used to make floors.
  3. 3.The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.

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