knock out

• “He knew it was going to be hard as hell to straighten this gaggle out after the Sam-evading maneuvers and get a decent run at the target, but the yards were the target, the one they had briefed on for so long, the one they wanted to knock out so badly so they wouldn't have to come back here for it again.”

  Thud Ridge

• “For example, in the case of the hybrid mating factor/concentrated salt scaffold protein they added further mutations to knock out the original pathway, to ensure there was no cross-reaction where, say, one signal would activate both the mating response and the high salt response.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Edge of Evolution

• “Jasper spun, firing off several shots from his ray gun at Bobby before he hit the taut oxhide and was hurled back up into the air, wheeling his legs in kicks and punches to knock out the gangsters who grabbed at his knees.”

  Simon & Schuster: Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware

• “It took three shots for Gröschl to knock out the first T-34/85.”

  Panzer Aces

• “Everyone, that is, except Geeno — the fighter pilot commander who bet his life that he could knock out the toughest guns in the world and save his buddies.”

  Thud Ridge

• “At reentry velocities, it only takes a small projectile to knock out a hoverstrut-supported building.”

  Simon & Schuster: Extras

• “For a similarly outrageous price, we secured a place to stay in Westminster: four sleeping spots in one large, homey, third-floor, slope-ceilinged room, with an interior stairway so steep, narrow, and serpentine that you were likely to simultaneously rupture a couple of disks and knock out a piece of the railing as you carried your suitcases up.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

• “Attempts by the Russians to find and knock out their tormentor's observation posts resulted only in temporary difficulties, and their efforts to exactly pin-point the hostile guns were inadequate.”

  First Clash

• “If the weather was only favorable we might knock out some of his props for I think that the rebelion is like some old house proped up and I think we will soon knock out some of the main props”

  Franklin County: Franklin Rosenbery to John Abraham Rosenbery (father), March 1, 1864

• “This question was asked in sudden dismay, as Edwin, using the back of his hunting knife, began to knock out the teeth from the jaws of one of the skulls.”

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