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Verb: to adore, to floor



 
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Verb: to adore, to floor #1 (permalink) Wed Feb 18, 2009 0:38 am   Verb: to adore, to floor
 

To adore = to love or what?

What does to floor mean in the following context?

...because I adore you, I want to floor you.

Does it mean to put someone on the floor or what?

Could anyone help me out, please?
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Verb: to adore, to floor #2 (permalink) Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:31 am   Verb: to adore, to floor
 

To adore is right. To floor means what you say, but may be used figuratively depending on context. It could mean:
-To defeat
-To confuse
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Verb: to adore, to floor #3 (permalink) Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:11 am   Verb: to adore, to floor
 

Hi, Cerberus,

Could it mean, judging by the context, 'to copulate'? I mean, how can you possibly adore a foe?

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Verb: to adore, to floor #4 (permalink) Wed Feb 18, 2009 14:34 pm   Verb: to adore, to floor
 

I can think of a situation.
You love somebody/someone. You don't want him/her/them to go far away from you, in both aspects of mind and body. So you don't let him/her/them to go.

Please correct my mistakes in this passage.
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Verb: to adore, to floor #5 (permalink) Wed Feb 18, 2009 21:20 pm   Verb: to adore, to floor
 

Hi SkiIuck, to copulate is not something that is commonly expressed by "to floor" itself, as far as I know. But I guess you could floor someone with the purpose of facilitating copulation. There should be a reason, then, why copulating were easier on the floor than, say, on a piece of furniture, or while standing.

I looked up the poem that this line is from on the internet. Poetic language may break all common rules. I would take this fragment as a metaphor in the game of love, as compared to wrestling. When you floor someone, you win. Moreover, he/she must do your bidding. So that the author is here talking about winning his beloved's love. I think Arun meant something similar.

Arun, "somebody" and "someone" are both correct; I found no mistakes except that "in both aspects of mind and body" would be better as "both in mind and in body".
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Verb: to adore, to floor #6 (permalink) Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:35 am   Verb: to adore, to floor
 

Thanks Cereberus,
Yeah. I meant what you explained.
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