What does knock against mean?

knock against means "collide violently with an obstacle".

What is another word for knock against?

Close synonyms include run into, bump into, jar against, butt against. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knock against a common word?

knock against is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

knock against — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
collide violently with an obstacle
“I ran into the telephone pole”
Synonymsrun into bump into jar against butt against
Broaderhit

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What does knock against mean?: knock against means "collide violently with an obstacle".
What is another word for knock against?

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