knocked off

verb

Definition of knocked offnext
past tense of knock off
1
as in stopped
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end knock it off!

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2
as in abandoned
to stop doing (something) permanently decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background

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3
as in subtracted
to take away (an amount or number) from a total a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax

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4
as in robbed
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks

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5
as in assassinated
to put to death deliberately various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked off
  1. stopped
  2. abandoned
  3. robbed
  4. assassinated
  5. ceased
  6. deducted
  7. murdered
  8. ended
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  • Both have stopped issuing new housing subsidies.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But that hasn’t stopped the likes of Lego and Hasbro from pushing ahead.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of stopped
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  • Second, most congressional Republicans have abandoned ethical norms.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • These assortative alliances will be fully voluntarist—to be joined and abandoned as one pleases.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of abandoned
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  • Much of that downturn can be chalked up to the three-month Comcast blackout of the Diamond Sports RSNs, which robbed some markets of more than half their usual deliveries.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Alas, climate denial campaigns led by fossil fuel companies robbed us of that option.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of robbed
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  • Several pro-war Russian figures have been assassinated since the start of the war in operations Moscow blamed on Ukraine, including journalist Darya Dugina, war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky and former submarine commander Stanislav Rzhitsky.
    Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in 2022 while making a speech for a ruling party candidate during a parliamentary election.
    Yuri Kageyama, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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  • Earlier this year, the company abruptly ceased operations at its Jacksonville, Florida, facility and began working to set up the assembly plant in Ontario to assemble commercial electric delivery vans and trucks.
    Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The company has identified material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting and has ceased its remediation plan due to the pending merger.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of ceased
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  • If your account has not earned enough interest to cover an early withdrawal penalty, any interest is deducted first and the remainder of the penalty is taken from your principal.
    Elizabeth Gravier, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Those costs don’t vanish, however — they’re deducted from your cash disbursal.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of deducted
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  • Popular on Variety Chico Mendes, who was murdered by a rancher in 1988, is an international symbol of the struggle to protect the Amazon Rainforest.
    Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Their father had been murdered in their home, which was then looted and burnt to the ground.
    Angelina Jolie, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • The medical condition that ended Henrik Lundqvist’s playing career has set him up to make his next great save.
    Carol Schram, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The deal then closed the day after, so our bidding war ended three days after our actual premiere.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of ended
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knocked for a loop

knocked off

knocked one's socks off

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