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down for the count
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Decisively beaten; defeated; rendered irrelevant for the long term.
Other meanings
2. adjective
Soundly unconscious, either because asleep or because otherwise knocked out.
3. adjective
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, for, the, count: lying upon the mat of a boxing ring while the referee counts the fighter out.
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