knock off (sth)
informal — phrasal verb with knock /nɒk/
/nɑːk/ verb Definition
› to stop working, usually at the end of the day: I don't knock off until six. What time do you knock off work?Causing something to endComing to an end
(Definition of knock off (sth) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -stopper suffix
- abandon verb (STOP)
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- break away phrasal verb (NOT AGREE)
- conclude verb (FINISH)
- freeze noun (STOP)
- hang sth up phrasal verb
- jack sth in phrasal verb
- kill sth stone-dead idiom
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- scrap verb (THROW AWAY)
- squash verb (END)
- stamp sth out phrasal verb
- stanch verb
- staunch verb
- stem verb
- strangle sth at birth idiom
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