floor
/floɹ/ verb C2- To cover or furnish with a floor. · floor a house with pine boards
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
- To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate. · our driver floored the pedal
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. · floor an opponent
- To amaze or greatly surprise. · We were floored by his confession.
- To finish or make an end of. · floor a college examination
- To set a lower bound. · floored division
He/she/it floors · Past floored · Past participle floored · -ing form flooring
Verb forms
- Base form
- floor
- He/she/it
- floors
- Past
- floored
- Past participle
- floored
- -ing form
- flooring
From the library
The ground floor windows were within a foot of the surface of the water.
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
Anne Shirley, you’re dripping greasy water all over the floor.
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