单词 | knock |
释义 | knock (once / 101 pages) 1vn 2vn 3n When you knock, you bump or strike someone or something. When you hear a knock at the door, someone on the other side is thumping it with their knuckles. You can accidentally knock your grandmother's special glass bowl off the table, and you can also knock softly on her door — or tap with your knuckles — before you go in and tell her how sorry you are. If a car engine knocks, it makes a rattling or rapping sound. Colloquially, to knock something is to reject or criticize it, and if you do, you may hear the phrase, "Don't knock it until you try it!" WORD FAMILYknock: antiknock, knocked, knocker, knocking, knocks+/knocker: knockers/knocking: knockings USAGE EXAMPLESBartolo Colon, playing first base for Braves, knocks 20th homer of season. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The first time, other inmates broke her nose, and the second time, they stomped on her and knocked her unconscious, she said. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) At the snap, defensive end Jonathan Allen slanted inside and knocked down both the offensive tackle and the guard. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1v deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room" Syn|Hyper strike hard strike deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 2v knock against with force or violence Syn|Hyper bump collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike hit against; come into sudden contact with 3v make light, repeated taps on a surface Syn|Hyper pink, rap, tap go, sound make a certain noise or sound 4v rap with the knuckles knock on the door Hyper knap, rap strike sharply 5v sound like a car engine that is firing too early Syn|Hyper ping, pink go, sound make a certain noise or sound 6n the act of hitting vigorously Syn|Hyper belt, rap, whack, whang blow a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon 7n a vigorous blow the sudden knock floored him Syn|Hyper bang, bash, belt, smash blow, bump an impact (as from a collision) 8n the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) 2Syn|Hyper knocking sound the sudden occurrence of an audible event 1v find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws Don't knock the food--it's free Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper criticise, criticize, pick apart praise express approval of censure, criminate, reprimand rebuke formally blast, crucify, pillory, savagecriticize harshly or violently admonish, reprovetake to task bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trouncecensure severely or angrily reprehendexpress strong disapproval of deploreexpress strong disapproval of belabor, belabourattack verbally with harsh criticism come downcriticize or reprimand harshly denouncespeak out against blame, find fault, pickharass with constant criticism belittle, disparage, pick atexpress a negative opinion of nitpickbe overly critical; criticize minor details assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, snipeattack in speech or writing harsh oncriticize harshly castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, objurgatecensure severely brush down, tell offreprimand animadvertexpress blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark fulminate, railcriticize severely abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw, shoutuse foul or abusive language towards clawattack as if with claws pan, tear apart, trashexpress a totally negative opinion of discredit, disgracedamage the reputation of deprecate, depreciate, vilipendbelittle vitriolsubject to bitter verbal abuse ripcriticize or abuse strongly and violently whangattack forcefully barrage, bombardaddress with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage blister, scald, whipsubject to harsh criticism condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobateexpress strong disapproval of belittle, denigrate, derogate, minimizecause to seem less serious; play down accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execratecurse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment rubbishattack strongly comment, notice, point out, remark make or write a comment on 2n negative criticism 3Syn|Hyper roast criticism, critique a serious examination and judgment of something n a bad experience the school of hard knocks Hyper bad luck, misfortune unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event |
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