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floor

/flɔː/
noun
  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

    "The room has a wooden floor."

  2. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).

  3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.

    "Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor."

Synonymspossession
Antonymsceiling
verb
  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.

    "floor a house with pine boards"

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

  3. (driving) To accelerate rapidly.

    "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!"

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