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RELATED WORDS : knock knock against knock around knock back knock cold knock dead knock down knock it off knock kneed knock off knock on knock out knock over knock rummy knock up

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb knock about has 2 senses

• knock about(v = verb.contact) batter, buffet - strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent"
is one way to strike
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

• knock about(v = verb.stative) kick about, kick around - be around; be alive or active; "Does the old man still kick around?"
is one way to be, exist
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s

THESAURUS

knock about

abuse, bat around, batter, bruise, buffet, bum, count ties, divagate, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, drift, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, jaunt, knock around, maltreat, manhandle, maul, meander, mishandle, mistreat, molest, mooch, nomadize, outrage, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rough, rough up, roughhouse, rove, run about, saunter, savage, straggle, stray, stroll, traipse, tramp, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

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