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Synonyms for knocked off
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : nok |
| Phonetic Transcription : nɒk |
Top 10 synonyms for knocked off Other synonyms for the word knocked off
- chill
- complete
- conclude
- desist
- discontinue
- do away with
- do in
- dust
- execute
- filch
- finish
- give over
- grease
- halt
- hit
- ice
- kill
- knock over
- leave off
- liquidate
- loot
- murder
- off
- pilfer
- pinch
- plunder
- purloin
- quit
- ransack
- relieve
- rifle
- rip off
- rob
- rub out
- shoot
- slay
- stab
- stop work
- stretch out
- succeed
- surcease
- terminate
- thieve
- waste
- wax
- zap
Définition of knocked off
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]
- verb kill
- verb steal
- verb stop action; accomplish
Antonyms for knocked off
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