| 单词 | to knock over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock over to knock over 1. transitive. To overthrow by, or as if by, a blow; to prostrate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or overwhelm > completely or overthrow shrenchc897 allayOE fellOE quellOE to bring to the groundc1175 forlesec1200 to lay downa1225 acastc1225 accumberc1275 cumber1303 confoundc1330 overthrowc1375 cumrayc1425 overquell?c1450 overwhelvec1450 to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)?a1500 prostrate1531 quash1556 couch1577 unhorse1577 prosternate1593 overbeata1616 unchariot1715 floor1828 quench1841 to knock over1853 fling1889 to throw down1890 steamroller1912 wipe1972 zonk1973 1814 Suppl. Grose's Prov. Gloss. in Pegge's Anecd. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) 384 To Knock a man over, to knock him down. North. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxix. 285 Such a resemblance..that it completely knocked me over. 1855 W. H. Russell War xxiv. 167 The ‘Sampson’ pitched shell after shell right in among the tents, knocking them over right and left. 1857 Lady Canning in Hare 2 Noble Lives (1893) II. 343 Sunstroke..knocks them over quite suddenly. 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. vii. 184 If a single bushman could not have knocked that tree over before dinner time, he would not have been worth wages. 1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 69 That evening two of my Kafirs..were knocked over with fever. 2. intransitive. To succumb; to die. colloquial or slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1892 Stevenson in Illustr. London News 9 July 42/1 Captain Randall knocked over with some kind of a fit or stroke. 3. transitive. In warp knitting: to cause (a stitch) to pass over the head of the needle on which it was held. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > knit > processes involved in purla1825 rib1837 to cast on1840 increase1840 slip1840 turn1846 toe1856 to knock over1875 to cast off1880 land1885 rep1951 raschel1970 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1238/1 Knocking-over bar, the bar against which the loops and fabric are drawn as the needles retreat, so that the loops shall be thrown or knocked over the heads of the needles. 1885 W. T. Rowlett tr. G. Willkomm Technol. Framework Knitting II. iii. 145 These sinkers..must move up and down, and backwards and forwards, so as to sink the thread into loops, bring them forward under the needle beards, land and knock over the old stitches, and..lock in the new stitches, and take them to the back of the needles. 1952 D. F. Paling Warp Knitting Technol. i. 6 The presser is now withdrawn and the needle bar continues its downward motion, thus causing the fabric loops to pass further up the needle beards until finally they are knocked-over the needle heads as the latter pass below the level of the sinkers. 1964 H. Wignall Knitting ii. 28 The old loop is now cast-off or knocked over. 4. transitive (Underworld slang.) To rob (a person), to burgle (a building); to steal (from). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > steal from picka1350 lifta1529 filch1567 purloinc1571 prowl1603 touch1631 pinch1632 to pick up1687 to speak with ——1725 knock1767 shab1787 jump1789 to speak to ——1800 shake1811 spice1819 sting1819 tap1879 to knock over1928 1928 Detective Fiction Weekly 7 June 52/2 I just got knocked over for that wad we jest lifted... My pocket was picked... I was tapped, touched, if that's any plainer. 1932 Detective Fiction Weekly 6 Feb. 129/2 I ain't knocked nothin' over for some little time now. 1937 C. R. Cooper Here's to Crime iv. 89 There's the real fun of bank-robbing—running the roads. Old Harve used to love it. I've seen him run roads when he had no intention of ever knocking over a can. 1940 Illustr. London News 26 Oct. 548/2 The job looks easy enough—a big hotel at Tropico Springs that any fool could ‘knock over’. 1941 K. Tennant Battlers i. 9 Life ‘on the track’ was not so bad, with good places to camp and ‘cockies’ sheep to knock over. < as lemmas |
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