Antonyms for knock around

Grammar : Verb

Spell : nok

Phonetic Transcription : nɒk

Definition of knock around

Origin : Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), "to pound, beat; knock (on a door)," likely of imitative origin. Meaning "deprecate, put down" is from 1892. Related: Knocked; knocking. Knock-kneed first attested 1774. Knock-down, drag-out is from 1827. Command knock it off "stop it" is first recorded 1880, perhaps from auctioneer's term for "dispose of quickly:"
At the commencement of the sales, he gave every one that wanted to purchase a paper containing a description of the lands that were to be sold; and, as the sales were cried, he called over the numbers and described the land; and when it got up to one dollar and a quarter an acre, if no body bid, after it was cried two or three times, he would say, knock it off, knock it off. [U.S. Senate record, 1834]

As in knock about/knock around : verb roam, wander
As in argue : verb verbally fight
As in loaf : verb be idle, lazy
As in maul : verb mangle, abuse
As in mistreat : verb treat badly or wrongly
As in ramble : verb wander about; travel aimlessly
As in roam : verb wander about
As in rough up : verb handle harshly
As in beat up : verb assault
As in travel : verb journey on a trip or tour
As in knock about : verb roam
As in laze : verb idle
As in debate : verb argue, discuss
As in deliberate : verb think about seriously; discuss
As in discuss : verb talk over with another
As in gad : verb roam about
As in hit : verb strike

Example sentences :

You must knock around a whole bunch, and have lots happen to you.
Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford

We intended to knock around in the brush a little while, and then resume our trip.
Extract from : « Seventy Years on the Frontier » by Alexander Majors

Do you suppose we'd let a young girl like you knock around alone in a city?
Extract from : « Betty Gordon in Washington » by Alice B. Emerson

I'd just like to knock around, and have a dog, and—a jolly good time, you know.
Extract from : « Tommy Wideawake » by H. H. Bashford

He would stay out and knock around as a man who was independent—not broke—well might.
Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser

In the morning, I feel sort of weak, and want to knock around doing woman's chores.
Extract from : « Menotah » by Ernest G. Henham

For a week or two I mean to just knock around here, sometimes ashore and again afloat.
Extract from : « Darry the Life Saver » by Frank V. Webster

Henry was left an orphan at an early age, compelled to knock around and pick up a living as best he could.
Extract from : « The Twin Ventriloquists » by Old Sleuth

A pair of youngsters can knock around happily without worrying about uncertainties.
Extract from : « Paris Vistas » by Helen Davenport Gibbons

Got no wife, an kind o like to feel free to knock around instead o bein tied to one place.
Extract from : « The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition » by Gerald Breckenridge

Synonyms for knock around

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