Antonyms for knock around
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : nok |
Phonetic Transcription : nÉ’k |
- abstain
- achieve
- agree
- aid
- assist
- back up
- be direct
- be quiet
- benefit
- coddle
- compliment
- comply
- concur
- cure
- discard
- discourage
- disregard
- dissuade
- do
- endorse
- energize
- face
- fail
- favor
- forget
- give in
- give up
- go along
- go direct
- guard
- halt
- harmonize
- heal
- help
- hurry
- ignore
- join
- keep quiet
- keep silent
- labor
- lose
- maintain
- make peace
- meet
- neglect
- overlook
- pamper
- pet
- please
- praise
- protect
- remain
- run
- rush
- satisfy
- stay
- stop
- straighten
- surrender
- take care
- treat well
- wait
- work hard
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
- 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
- abuse
- adventure
- agitate
- altercate
- amble
- answer
- argue
- attack
- backbite
- bandy
- bang
- bash
- bat
- bat around
- bat it around
- batter
- battle
- be all over the map
- be inactive
- be indolent
- be slothful
- be unoccupied
- beat
- beat up
- belt
- bicker
- blast
- blitz
- bludgeon
- bounce off
- box
- brain
- branch off
- break face
- break with
- brutalize
- buck
- buffet
- bum
- bum around
- bump
- bump heads
- bung up
- canvass
- carry
- cerebrate
- chew over
- chew the fat
- chop
- clamber
- clap
- claw
- clean
- climb
- clip
- clobber
- clout
- club
- cogitate
- compare notes
- confab
- confabulate
- confer
- confute
- consider
- consult
- consult with
- contemplate
- contend
- contest
- controvert
- converse
- cover
- cover ground
- crack
- cross
- cross swords
- cruise
- cudgel
- cuff
- dab
- dally
- debate
- deliberate
- demonstrate
- depart
- descant
- differ
- digress
- dillydally
- ding
- disagree
- discept
- discourse about
- disprove
- dispute
- dissert
- dissertate
- divagate
- diverge
- do over
- do wrong
- dream
- drift
- drive
- drub
- dump on
- evade
- examine
- exchange views on
- excogitate
- excurse
- explain
- explore
- extend
- face down
- face off
- feud
- figure
- flagellate
- flail
- flax
- flog
- fly
- fool around
- fork
- fritter away
- gad
- gallivant
- gang up on
- get in one's face
- get sidetracked
- get through
- get together
- give a black eye
- give black eye
- go
- go abroad
- go camping
- go into
- go into orbit
- go one on one
- go riding
- goldbrick
- groupthink
- hammer
- hammer away
- hammer away at
- handle roughly
- hang out
- harm
- hash
- hash over
- hassle
- have at each other
- have at it
- hike
- hit
- hit the road
- hit the trail
- hold forth
- hook
- hop
- hurt
- idle
- ill-treat
- injure
- jab
- jaunt
- jaw
- jet
- judge
- jump
- jump on
- junket
- kick
- kick about
- kick around
- kill time
- knock
- knock about
- knock around
- knock out
- KO
- lace
- lacerate
- lambaste
- larrup
- lash
- lather
- laze
- lean on
- let down
- let fly
- let have it
- lie
- loaf
- lob
- lock horns
- loiter
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around
- make a journey
- make one's way
- malinger
- maltreat
- manhandle
- maul
- maunder
- meander
- meditate
- mess up
- migrate
- mishandle
- mistreat
- misuse
- mix it up
- molest
- mooch
- moot
- motor
- move
- mug
- mull over
- muscle
- muse
- nail
- not lift a finger
- oppose
- outrage
- overnight
- pass time
- paste
- paw
- pellet
- pelt
- perambulate
- percolate
- percuss
- peregrinate
- pettifog
- pick a bone
- pick an argument
- piddle
- ponder
- pop
- pound
- pour it on
- proceed
- progress
- promenade
- prove
- prowl
- pulverize
- pummel
- punch
- push around
- put heads together
- put in the hospital
- put on thinking cap
- put up a fight
- put up a struggle
- put up argument
- quarrel
- question
- quibble
- rack brains
- ramble
- range
- rap
- reason
- reason about
- rebut
- reflect
- refute
- rehash
- relax
- review
- revolve
- ride roughshod
- rip
- roam
- roll
- rough up
- roughen
- roughhouse
- rove
- row
- ruminate
- run around
- run up a flagpole
- sail
- sass
- saunter
- scour
- scramble
- set forth
- set out
- set to
- shake up
- shirk
- sift
- sightsee
- sit around
- skin
- slack
- slap
- slap around
- slow down
- smack
- snake
- sock
- sock it to
- speculate
- sprangle
- sprawl
- spread
- spread-eagle
- squabble
- stall
- stand around
- stew over
- stick it to
- stone
- straddle
- straggle
- stray
- stroll
- struggle along
- study
- swat
- sweat over
- take a boat
- take a plane
- take a train
- take a trip
- take care of
- take it easy
- take up
- talk back
- talk game
- talk over
- tap
- thrash
- thrash out
- thump
- thwack
- toss around
- total
- tour
- trail
- traipse
- tramp
- trample
- transmit
- trash
- travel
- traverse
- trek
- trifle
- turn
- turn over
- twiddle thumbs
- twist
- uppercut
- vacation
- vagabond
- vegetate
- ventilate
- visit
- voyage
- walk
- wallop
- wander
- waste time
- wax
- weekend
- weigh
- wend
- whack
- whang
- while away hours
- whip
- wind
- work over
- wound
- wrangle
- wrong
- zigzag
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