0 present 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.
Familiarity even reached the level that allowed some befrienders to enter the house without knocking at the door.
A disruptive knocking sound is now heard behind and underneath the audience's seats.
It got a terrible knocking about with the sea which coming right over the boat.
Why kowtow to those awful older buildings instead of knocking them down to start again with a neat, clean field?
The ending is cautiously optimistic, however, with a hymn to fairytales that can come knocking on anyone's door.
They sent me to work on knocking the brick lining out of a blast furnace and labouring for the bricklayers replacing it.
Instead of simply knocking down the new tomb, they first showed a determination to legitimize their actions by appealing to two separate religious scholars.
It's funny that our client bought something our father did twentyfive years ago and, because he wants a new house, we're knocking it down.
