knobby, adj. bumpy, lumpy, tumorous, Bot. torose, bony, carunculate, knobbed; tuberous, warty, verru-cose; pimpled, papular; knotty, gnarled, knurled, knarled; protuberant, nodose, nodous, nodular; uneven, rough, unsmooth, unfinished, flawed, blemished,
knock, v. 1. rap, tap, hit, thump, bang, drum, pound, hammer.
2. strike, smite, thwack, smack, cuff, buffet, punch, box, Scot. dunt, Inf. slug; slap, Inf. whack, Inf. clout, Inf. wallop, Inf. crown, SI. conk, SI. bop, SI. belt, SI. sock; beat, batter, pound, lay on, pommel, pummel, pelt.
3. collide with, impact, crash against, smash into, dash against; jolt, jostle, jar, bang into or against; bump, run into, meet head-on, percuss.
4. Informal, cavil, carp, find fault, peck at, Inf. nit-pick, pick apart, pick to pieces, Inf. pick holes in, SI. cut up or to pieces, haul over the coals, criticize, judge; shoot down, run down, put down, Inf pan, Inf. slam, attack; deprecate, minimize, SI. badmouth.
5. knock around or
about Slang,
a. wander, Inf. traipse, range, ramble, rove, SI. bat around, kick around; gad about, gallivant, run about; jaunt, stroll, saunter,
b. loiter, loaf, idle, waste time, slack off, SI. goof off; take it easy, vegetate,
c. mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, abuse; manhandle, maul, batter, beat up, Archaic. belabor, harm, damage, bruise, wound, hurt, injure.
6. knock down a. fell, level, floor, raze; wreak, destroy, break up, smash, demolish, lay in ruins, devastate; hew down, cut down, bring down, pull down, cast down, throw down, fling down.
b. Informal, lower the price of, reduce, put on sale.
7. knock off Slang,
a. stop work, call it a day, call it quits, quit, close shop, lock up, shut down.
b. finish, terminate, conclude, draw to a close, bring to an end, dispose of.
c. kill, slay, assassinate, get rid of, put out of the way, silence, finish off; All SI. off, hit, zap, waste, bump off, polish off, rub out.
d. die, expire, give up the ghost, SI. croak, SI. go west.
8. knock out render unconscious, Boxing, flatten, prostrate, floor, k.o., knock [s.o.] galley-west; defeat, trounce, overthrow.
9. knock up a. damage, mar, impair, spoil,
b. injure, wound, hurt, bruise; beat up, pound, batter,
c. Slang, impregnate, get with child or young.
-n. 10. rap, tap, hit, thump, bang, pound, pounding, hammering.
11. blow, bastinado, punch, box, All Boxing, left, right, jab; Inf wallop, Inf whomp, douse, SI. conk, SI. hash, U.S. SI. biff, SI. buff, SI. bop; buffet, cuff, strike, slap, smack, thwack, Inf. whack, Inf. clout.
12. thud, bump, clash, crash, impact, collision.
13. Informal, criticism, stricture, castigation, animadversion, Inf. slam; censuring, condemnation, reprehension; insinuation, implication, imputation; vilification, aspersion, traducement, calumniation, calumny, obloquy, slur, slap in the face.
knoll, n. hillock, hummock, hill, (in South Africa) kopje, Chiefly Brit, barrow, elevation, mound, eminence; dune, sandhill, swell, wave; molehill, anthill, bump, hump, knob, protuberance, protuberancy, bulge,
knot, n. 1. interlacement, intertwinement, loop, twist, bend, tie, plexus; slipknot, bowline; bowtie, Windsor knot.
2. frog, bow, rosette, aiguillette, aglet, epaulet.
3. cluster, bunch, clump; gathering, throng, crowd, mob; company, crew, group, band, gang; set, circle, ring; aggregation, agglomeration, assemblage, mass, pile, heap.