adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock sb unconscious/cold/senseless (= hit someone so hard that they fall unconscious )
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Simon could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a senseless act of terror
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It was a senseless and cruel murder.
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Smashing up trains is such a senseless form of vandalism.
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The suicide was described as a senseless waste of a young woman's life.
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They beat him senseless , and left him for dead.
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We don't want our men and women to die in a senseless war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And for that reason it was senseless to be despondent.
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It is only their courageous sacrifice and innate nobility that illuminates the bloody and senseless war they are involved in.
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It was senseless to be despondent, anyway, even as Tom Ripley.
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Knock it senseless every hour when it raised its fanged head and decided to sharpen its nasty little claws.
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Motoring organisations slammed senseless drivers for travelling too fast.
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That contrast of tender sensibility and senseless brutality was etched into my mind, exposing the utter meaninglessness of violence and war.
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The act was senseless and completely unnecessary.
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This, not the senseless murmurings of useless words, is what quiets her, tells her she is precious.