knock over

English

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Verb

knock over (third-person singular simple present knocks over, present participle knocking over, simple past and past participle knocked over)

1. To bump or strike something in such a way as to tip it

   I knocked over a can of paint and spent the next hour cleaning up.

2. (slang) To rob; to stage a heist of.

   The bandits knocked over another bank, making three this week.

Related terms

• knock
• knock off

Translations

to bump or strike something in such a way as to tip it

• French: renverser (fr)
• Hungarian: feldönt (hu), kidönt (hu), ledönt (hu), lever (hu), kiborít (hu), felborít (hu), fellök (hu)
• Italian: rovesciare (it), far cadere
• Nepali: ढाल्नु (ḍhālnu)
• Polish: strącać impf, strącić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: derrubar (pt)
• Spanish: derribar (es)
• Swedish: välta (sv)

(slang) to rob; to stage a heist of — see rob