KNOCKS OFF Synonyms: 239 Similar and Opposite Words

knocks off

verb

present tense third-person singular of knock off

as in stops

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end knock it off!

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as in abandons

to stop doing (something) permanently decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background

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as in subtracts

to take away (an amount or number) from a total a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax

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as in robs

to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks

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as in murders

to put to death deliberately various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years

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Recent Examples of knocks off The sale will knocks off up to thirty percent off usual prices and will run through July 20th. — Brad Bourque, The Verge, 14 July 2026 All of the Jays’ run-scoring knocks off Weathers also came on two-strike counts. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026 Now my son toddles up to the bookshelf and casually knocks off Corduroy, The Cat in the Hat, This Pigeon Needs a Bath, Baby Beluga. — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026 If Texas basketball knocks off defending national champion Florida Wednesday at Moody Center, should that guarantee the Longhorns a spot in the NCAA Tournament? — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 24 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocks off

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Former Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins hurls a deep ball toward Jefferson in double coverage, and McCardell stops the play.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Newsom’s moratorium stops the state from carrying out those sentences.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of stops

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As Washington abandons talks with Iran for an aggressive economic pressure campaign, a cornered Tehran is now threatening military escalation and a wider war to force negotiators back to the table.

— Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
The former just had a kid in Oslo with his younger Norwegian girlfriend (Melina Akerman), who abandons them when Matteo decides to move back to Rome to spend more time with his domineering Italian mother (Angela Finocchiaro).

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of abandons

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Gross margin is the percentage of revenue left after a company subtracts its direct costs, so the higher the margin the better for the company.

— John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2026
Vitae and Willpower/Health merge into a single resource, Difficulty subtracts dice from a pool rather than raising a target number, and players roll nearly all of the dice at the table.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of subtracts

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But the rollicking jollity that accompanies the final two acts, which includes the entrance of pirates and the abduction of Marina to a brothel, robs the ending of some of its pathos.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Parkinson’s is a neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Definition of robs

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Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that oil prices could fall to between $40 and $50 per barrel once the conflict in the Middle East ends.

— Rachel Barber, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Most of the genome is non-coding and contains a mix of things, including centromeres, which help ensure chromosomes are divided evenly between cells, and caps that protect the chromosome ends.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of ends

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And earlier this week, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for June showed a slight pickup in hiring and quits (an indicator of employee confidence) while layoffs were essentially unchanged.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The band quits when the director releases a swarm of bees onto the set (the original clip featured dogs), only to be replaced by look-alikes.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of quits

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What happened Imagine an ATM that checks your balance, dispenses the money, then deducts the amount from your account.

— Emin Gün Sirer, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
The state’s homestead market-value exclusion program automatically deducts a certain amount of value for the purpose of calculating property taxes.

— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026