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Knock against   /nɑk əgˈɛnst/   Listen
Knock against

verb
1.
Collide violently with an obstacle.  Synonyms: bump into, butt against, jar against, run into.






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"Knock against" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pfriem; but he said nothing, and seemed satisfied with it. "It comes to the same thing after all, whichever way they carry the beam, straight or crooked, if they only get along with it, and truly I do not see them knock against anything." Soon after this he saw two angels who were drawing water out of a well into a bucket, but at the same time he observed that the bucket was full of holes, and that the water was running out of it on every side. They were watering the earth with rain. "Hang it," he exclaimed; ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers



Words linked to "Knock against" :   strike, hit, impinge on, collide with



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