English-Portuguese translations for knock down

• derrubar
  Temos de derrubar os muros da Europa fortaleza, de construir pontes e não muros... Let us knock down the walls of fortress Europe, let us build bridges, not walls ...
  Dou o meu apoio total ao relatório sobre a "União da Inovação” porque penso que nos permitirá derrubar as barreiras que entravam o pensamento inovador na União Europeia. I fully support the report on the Innovation Union because I think that it will allow us to knock down the barriers preventing innovative thinking in the European Union.

Definition of knock down

• To hit or knock , intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls
• To demolish
• At an auction, to declare sold with a blow from the gavel
• To reduce the price of
• To drink fast
• To disassemble for shipment

Examples

• As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it.
• We knocked down the garden shed when we moved.
• The picture was knocked down for £50.
• They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it.
• I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.
• The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required.

Related words

• knocking down
• knock me down with a feather
• knockdown
• knock-down ginger
• knockdown argument
• knockdown price