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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)
counterblows (or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes (or counter-strokes)
body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, 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
Synonyms and Antonyms of knocks
- my knee knocked against the table leg when I tried to get up quickly
- threatened to knock him upside the head if he didn't do as he was told
bangs, bashes, bats, belts, biffs, bludgeons, bobs, bonks, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clocks, clouts, cracks, hammers, hits, nails, pastes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slogs, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, strikes, swats, swipes, tags, thumps, thwacks, wallops, whacks, whales, zaps
batters, beats, buffets, bungs, chops, cuffs, drubs, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), licks, mangles, mauls, pelts, peppers, pommels, pummels, roughs
bumps, butts, jabs, jostles, kicks, knees, pokes, prods, pushes, shoves, stamps
bowls (down or over), creams, decks, dumps [slang], fells, floors, knocks down, levels
rabbit-punches, sucker punches
canes, clubs, cudgels, flails, flogs, lashes, saps, slashes, sledgehammers, sledges, spears, stabs, switches, thrashes, whips
- hey, don't knock it until you've tried it
blames, censures, condemns, criticizes, denounces, dispraises, disses [slang], faults, pans, reprehends, slags [chiefly British]
assails, attacks, blasts, clobbers, slams, slashes
beefs, bellyaches, bitches, carps, cavils, complains, crabs, croaks, fusses, gripes, grouses, growls, grumbles, kicks, kvetches, moans, murmurs, mutters, niggles, quibbles, whines
admonishes, chides, drubs, rebukes, reprimands, reproaches, reproves
berates, castigates, crucifies, excoriates, flays, gibbets, hammers, keelhauls, lambastes (or lambasts), lashes, pillories, scolds, upbraids
bad-mouths, belittles, decries, derides, discommends, disparages, puts down
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