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knocking down

verb , present participle of knock down

Synonyms and Antonyms of knocking down

1 to receive as return for effort

she's knocking down a good salary, but she has to work very hard

Synonyms of knocking down

acquiring, attaining, bagging, bringing in, capturing, carrying, coming by, drawing, earning, gaining, garnering, getting, landing, making, obtaining, procuring, pulling down, realizing, reaping, securing, winning

Words Related to knocking down

clearing, grossing, netting

accomplishing, achieving, notching (up), scoring

accumulating, amassing, drawing, racking up

catching, picking up

annexing, occupying, taking over

reacquiring, reattaining, recapturing, regaining, remaking

Near Antonyms of knocking down

according, giving, granting, paying

giving up, handing over, parting (with), relinquishing, surrendering, yielding

Antonyms of knocking down

forfeiting, losing

2 to take apart

right after the holidays the stores start to knock down the window displays

Synonyms of knocking down

breaking down, demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, dismounting, striking, taking down

Words Related to knocking down

detaching, disengaging

breaking up, disaggregating, disarticulating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, disuniting, dividing, separating

Near Antonyms of knocking down

building, erecting, pitching

combining, uniting

Antonyms of knocking down

assembling, constructing

3 to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall

the overexcited dog knocked the toddler down

Synonyms of knocking down

bowling (down or over), downing, dropping, felling, flooring, knocking over, leveling (or levelling), mowing (down), prostrating

Words Related to knocking down

kayoing, knocking out, KO'ing

overthrowing, throwing down, toppling

banging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, clobbering, hammering, hitting, jabbing, pasting, poking, pounding, punching, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, swatting, swiping, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling

4 to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent

they'll have to knock down the price of those televisions if they expect to sell any

Synonyms of knocking down

abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, lessening, lowering, reducing

Words Related to knocking down

compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting

abbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling

deflating, shrinking

minimizing

moderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying

Near Antonyms of knocking down

blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swelling

elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting

adding (to), complementing, supplementing

enhancing, heightening, intensifying

redoubling

Antonyms of knocking down

aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising

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