floored

see definition of floored

verbperplex, confound

Synonyms for floored

verb perplex, confound

Antonyms for floored

bowled over

adjective. completely surprised

dumbfounded

adjective. astounded, confused

kaput

adjective. ruined, wrecked

puzzled

adjective. confused

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "to furnish with a floor," from floor (n.). Sense of "puzzle, confound" is 1830, from notion of "knock down to the floor" (1640s). Related: Floored; flooring.

Example Sentences for floored

I turned and floored a feller that was too pressing, and hollered it was all right too.

It was a bare place, a shed which had been a stable and was now floored and ceiled.

As well as I could see by the light of the candle, it was floored, and panelled with black oak.

He floored me at Brasenose: but I bear the old cock no malice.

I thought that would have floored even Talleyrand; but not at all.

He doesn't measure his cups, but he would scorn to be floored by them.

She had borrowed that phrase from Myra Wilson, and it floored the elder.

The prisoner knew that he was nursing a grudge for the blow that had floored him.

They are floored with wooden slats and roofed with tar paper.

Many of the artists tried Cobden, and were floored over him.