Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— to strike something with a sharp blow
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Macmillan
— to hit something, causing damage or harm
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Other Word Forms
knock
knocking
knocks
Usage
1 use of ‘knocked’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle