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Meaning of flooring

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

flooring

verb

Definitions

  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.

    Example: floor a house with pine boards

  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

  3. (driving) To accelerate rapidly.

    Example: As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

  4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

    Example: Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

noun

Definitions

  1. A floor.

  2. A material used to make floors.

  3. The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.