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Knock Back

Definition: Knock Back

Knock Back

Verb

1. Cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Knock Back

Synonyms: put back (v), set back (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Knock Back

Language Translations for "knock back"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

zurückschlagen (beat back, beat off, beatback, fight back, flare back, fold back, hit back, kick, knock away, leaf back, pull back, repel, repulse, retaliate, return, roll back, strike back, swing back, to repulse, to strike back, turn down). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πίνω (bib, drink). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockknay ackbay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

da pe gât (drink down), da de duşcã. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

popiti na iskap (drink smth. down, drink up, toss off). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pasmar (amaze, astonish, astound, blight, dumbfound, faint, flabbergast, freeze, horrify, knock out, stun, stupefy, tarnish), envasar (bottle, can, pack, package, packet, pour), costar (charge, cost, set back), beberse (drain, put back, sink), asombrar (amaze, appal, appall, astonish, astound, flabbergast, flummox, stagger, surprise). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svepa (down, lap, lay out, shroud, sweep, swill, wrap), hälla i sig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), mal olmak (be, cost, set back), içmek (belt down, drink, drinking, eat, have a drink, imbibe, indulge, propose, pull, slosh, slosh down, swig), devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пиячити (be on the booze, boose, bouse, bum, carouse, fuddle, guzzle, make whoopee, tipple, tope). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Knock Back

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-k-k-k-n-o"

-4 letters: acock, bacon, banco, knack, knock.

-5 letters: back, bank, bock, bonk, coca, conk, kaon, knob, koan, konk, nock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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