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knocking downverbpresent participle of knock down to receive as return for effortshe's knocking down a good salary, but she has to work very hard acquiring, attaining, bagging, bringing in, capturing, carrying, coming by, drawing, earning, gaining, garnering, getting, landing, making, obtaining, procuring, pulling down, realizing, reaping, securing, winning clearing, grossing, nettingaccomplishing, achieving, notching (up), scoringaccumulating, amassing, drawing, racking upcatching, picking upannexing, occupying, taking overreacquiring, reattaining, recapturing, regaining, remaking forfeiting, losing according, giving, granting, payinggiving up, handing over, parting (with), relinquishing, surrendering, yielding to take apartright after the holidays the stores start to knock down the window displays breaking down, demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, dismounting, striking, taking down detaching, disengagingbreaking up, disaggregating, disarticulating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, disuniting, dividing, separating assembling, constructing building, erecting, pitchingcombining, uniting to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fallthe overexcited dog knocked the toddler down bowling (down or over), downing, dropping, felling, flooring, knocking over, leveling(or levelling), mowing (down), prostrating kayoing, knocking out, KO'ingoverthrowing, throwing down, topplingbanging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, clobbering, hammering, hitting, jabbing, pasting, poking, pounding, punching, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, swatting, swiping, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentthey'll have to knock down the price of those televisions if they expect to sell any abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, lessening, lowering, reducing compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling |