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Synonyms and Antonyms of knocks
- gave the door a good knock
bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses [British], fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, larrups [dialect], lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops (also whaps)
counters, counterblows (or counter-blows), counterpunches, counterstrokes (or counter-strokes)
body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, rights, right-handers, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercuts
crunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOs
bastinadoes (or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashings
- getting his college degree was a six year adventure not without its share of knocks along the way
- the geneticist's reputation took a knock when several of his peers were unable to confirm his research findings
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