0 past simple and past participle of knock --
1 to repeatedly hit something, producing a noise: --
2 to hit, especially forcefully, and cause to move or fall: --
[ + obj + adj ] Some thug knocked him unconscious/senseless.
He accidentally knocked the vase off the table.
3 to criticize, especially unfairly: --
Don't knock him - he's doing his best.
Nobody has knocked on your door and asked you to be an actor.
As he wanted to get down very quickly, he knocked down the ladder because it was unbalanced.
As he wanted to get down very quickly, he knocked down the ladder.
He ordered her to lie down, knocked her on the face, then cut off her hands.
I knocked down three times then he dodged me into water.
I wish me grandmother had flogged us with a bit of ninetail - it might have knocked a bit of sense into us earlier !
In another, the device was knocked out of position during catheter manipulation after deployment and embolized to the pulmonary artery.
No longer an icon of immutable law and harmony, it seemed bizarre and dissonant, knocked from its theoretical, pedagogical and symbolic pride of place.
