knock over[verb]Synonyms: fell, bowl (down
or over), bring down, down, drop, flatten, floor, ground, knock down, lay low, overturn, overset, overthrow, tip (over), topple, turn over, upset, overwhelm, drown, overcome, overpower, prostrate, whelm, rob, knock off, loot, plunder, ransack, relieve, rifle, rip off, stick up
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knock somebody/something ↔ over phrasal verb (
see also knock)
1. to hit someone with a vehicle while you are driving, so that they are hurt or killed:
A woman was knocked over by a bus last year.2. American English informal to rob a place such as a shop or bank and threaten or attack the people who work there
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