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单词 knock up
释义 knock up
transitive verb
1.
 a.
  (1) : to arrange or devise especially hurriedly or with little thought
   < decided to knock up a tennis match >
   : prepare quickly or without much care
   < knock up a meal for us — Irwin Shaw >
  (2) : to strike up casually
   < knocked up an acquaintance with a few people >
 b. : to knock together
  < two small wooden buildings, casually knocked up — Josephine Pinckney >
 c. : to practice informally with (as a tennis ball, shuttlecock) in warming up before a match (as in tennis, badminton, squash)
2. Britain : rouse, summon; specifically : to cause (as by knocking at the door) to awaken or rise from sleep or rest
3.
 a. : to make exhausted : knock out
  < hurried too fast and it knocked me up — G.M.Hopkins >
 b.
  (1) : to put out of top condition : cause to deteriorate
   < too much food and idleness had knocked them up >
  (2) : to bring to an end : destroy
   < unfair competition had knocked up the once flourishing business >
 c. : wound, hurt
  < got pretty badly knocked up >
  < if I'm killed over there — that isn't likely, I'm more of the damned sort that gets knocked up — Ellen Glasgow >
4.
 a. : to run up (as a score) : make, achieve
  < knocking up a good score >
 b. Britain : to receive as income or salary : earn, get
5. slang : to make pregnant
 < no girls get married around here till they're knocked up — Ernest Hemingway >
6. : to make uneasy : disturb, bother
 < felt rather knocked up by the news >
7.
 a. Britain : to knock down (sense 5)
 b. : jog 4
intransitive verb
1. : to become totally exhausted or otherwise unfit : break down
 < a few of the beasts had knocked up and had to be abandoned — I.L.Idriess >
2. : to chance upon or meet up with something indicated — used with against
 < knocked up against formidable difficulties >
 < happened to knock up against an old friend >
3. : to practice informally (as by volleying) in warming up before a match (as in tennis, badminton, squash)
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