Synonyms and Antonyms of knock off
1
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
break, break off, break up, can [slang], cease, cut off, cut out, desist (from), discontinue, drop, end, give over, halt, lay off, leave off, pack (up or in), quit, shut off, stop
complete, conclude, finish
close (down)
deactivate
block, blockade, dam, delay, detain, hinder, hold, hold back, impede, kibosh, obstruct, stem
call, suspend
arrest, brake, check, clamp down, rein (in), squash, squelch, stamp, stanch (or staunch), stunt, suppress, turn back
pause, stay, suspend
abolish, abort, annul, demolish, destroy, dissolve, kill, ruin, scuttle, snuff
carry on, continue, follow through (with), keep up, run on
advance, proceed, progress
actuate, drive, impel, propel, stir
2
to stop doing (something) permanently
- decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background
break off, break up, cease, close, conclude, end, expire, finish, halt, leave off, shut off
pause, taper off
throw up
round (off or out), terminate, wind up, wrap up
go, run on
hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere, persist
follow through (with)
renew, reopen, restart, resume
preserve, stay
begin, commence, start
3
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
- a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax
decrease, diminish, discount, downsize, dwindle, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce
abbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittle
adjoin, annex, append
complement, supplement
enhance, heighten, intensify, magnify
aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef (up), boost, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, multiply, raise
4
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
- Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks
ransack, rifle
despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ravish, sack, spoil, strip
bleed, break in, cheat, chisel, cozen, defraud, exploit, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, pluck, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle
hold up, mug, roll, stick up
5
to put to death deliberately
- various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years
assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice [slang], liquidate, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack [slang]
blow away, shoot, shoot down
blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap
butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter
annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out
