Floor
Floor verb - To make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected.
Usage example: as you might expect, winning the lottery simply floored us
Rock
Rock verb - To make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected.
Usage example: the news of the mayor's sudden death rocked the city
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| high | high floor | high rock |
| full | full floor | full rock |
| solid | solid floor | solid rock |
| original | original floor | original rock |
| Other adjectives: fake, single, bare, dark, cold, new, various, red, surrounding, electric. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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To avoid getting in trouble they put a rock on the floor in the room and told their mother that someone had thrown the rock in, that's how the window got broken.
Source: Literature / Encyclopedia Brown - I hit rock bottom/Then I fell in a hole/Then I fell through the floor of that hole some more
Source: Rock Bottom - To avoid getting in trouble, they put a rock on the floor in the room and told their mother that someone had thrown the rock in; that's how the window got broken.
Source: Broken Glass Penalty
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