Synonyms and Antonyms of knocking off
1
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
breaking, breaking off, breaking up, canning [slang], ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, dropping, ending, giving over, halting, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping
completing, concluding, finishing
closing (down)
deactivating
blockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemming
calling, suspending
arresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching (or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back
pausing, staying, suspending
abolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing
carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running on
advancing, proceeding, progressing
actuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring
2
to stop doing (something) permanently
- decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background
breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, ending, expiring, finishing, halting, leaving off, shutting off
pausing, tapering off
throwing up
rounding (off or out), terminating, winding up, wrapping up
going, running on
hanging in, hanging on, holding on, persevering, persisting
following through (with)
renewing, reopening, restarting, resuming
preserving, staying
beginning, commencing, starting
3
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
- a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax
decreasing, diminishing, discounting, downsizing, dwindling, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing
abbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling
adjoining, annexing, appending
complementing, supplementing
enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying
aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, multiplying, raising
4
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
- Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks
ransacking, rifling
despoiling, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravishing, sacking, spoiling, stripping
bleeding, breaking in, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), cozening, defrauding, exploiting, fleecing, gypping, hustling, mulcting, plucking, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling
holding up, mugging, rolling, sticking up
5
to put to death deliberately
- various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years
assassinating, bumping off, croaking [slang], dispatching, doing in, executing, getting, icing [slang], liquidating, murdering, neutralizing, offing [slang], putting away, rubbing out, slaying, snuffing, taking out, terminating, whacking [slang]
blowing away, shooting, shooting down
blotting out, carrying off, claiming, cutting down, destroying, felling, killing, smiting, zapping
butchering, massacring, mowing (down), slaughtering
annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, exterminating, wiping out
