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knocking for a loopphrasepresent participle of knock for a loop to cause an unpleasant surprise forWhen word spread about their coworker's tragic accident, it knocked them for a loop. appalling, flooring, jolting, shaking up, shocking astonishing, bowling over, dumbfounding(also dumfounding), flabbergasting, freaking (out), stunning, stupefyingaffrighting, alarming(also alaruming), dismaying, frightening, frighting, horrifying, panicking, scarifying, scaring, spooking, startling, terrifying, terrorizingdisgusting, nauseating, repelling, revolting, sickening, turning offdispleasing, offending, outraging, scandalizingamazing, astounding, awingchilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringingdiscomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, shaking, unsettling, upsetting, weirding outcrushing, overpowering, overwhelming buffering, cushioningdelighting, gratifying, pleasing, rejoicing, ticklingcharming, enticing, temptingassuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, solacing, soothingreassuring to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpectedShe was knocked for a loop when she heard she got three job offers in one week. amazing, astonishing, astounding, bowling over, dumbfounding(also dumfounding), flabbergasting, flooring, rocking, shocking, startling, stunning, stupefying, surprising(also surprizing), thunderstriking befuddling, bewildering, blindsiding, blowing away, confounding, confusing, dazing, discomfiting, disconcerting, dismaying, jarring, muddling, nonplussing(also nonplusing), perplexing, shaking up taking aback, taking by surprise to make senseless or dizzy by a blowShe was knocked for a loop by the impact of the airbag when it deployed. dazing, rocking, stunning deadening, knocking out, paralyzingbenumbing, numbing, stupefyingbowling over, knocking downbanging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, bonking, bopping, clobbering, clocking, clouting, hammering, hitting, pasting, pounding, punching, rapping, slamming, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, striking, swatting, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whalingbattering, beating, buffeting, bunging, chopping, cuffing, drubbing, mangling, mauling, pelting, pummeling(also pummelling) knocking silly to achieve a victory overThe boxer really knocked his opponent for a loop. beating, besting, conquering, defeating, dispatching, doing down(British), getting, getting around, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), skunking, stopping, subduing, surmounting, taking, trimming, triumphing (over), upending, winning (against), worsting sweepingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking(slang), snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing(slang), whippingcapping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingknocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending getting the better of losing (to) falling, giving up, going down, going undercollapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing out |