KNOCKS OFF Synonyms: 239 Similar and Opposite Words

knocks off

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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 However, the Rangers erased the Yankees’ three-run lead in the bottom of the second, as former pinstriped prospects Josh Smith and Ezequiel Duran — traded for Joey Gallo in 2021 — had RBI knocks off Max Fried, with the latter tying the game. —

Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025

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According to the death certificate from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office, obtained by Rolling Stone, O’Hara’s immediate cause of death was a pulmonary embolism (a clot that stops blood from flowing to an artery in the lung).

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2026
In between dancing and singing and falling backward in the hands of fellow performers, Bad Bunny stops at what looks like a bar on set to get a drink from none other than Brooklyn’s legendary owner of one of the last surviving Puerto Rican social clubs in New York City.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026