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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Knock Under (To). Johnson says this expression arose from a custom once common of knocking under the table when any guest wished to acknowledge himself beaten in argument. Another derivation is knuckle under- i.e. to knuckle or bend the knuckle or knee in proof of submission. Bellenden Kerr says it is Te nock ander, which he interprets "I am forced to yield." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Penitence | Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience. |
Submission | Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: KNOCK UNDER |
| English words defined with "KNOCK UNDER": To knuckle to. (references) |
Expression using "KNOCK UNDER": To knock under. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "KNOCK UNDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подчинявам се (bow, obey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megadja magát (ask for quarter, capitulate, give up, lay down arms, succumb, to capitulate, to cave in, to cry craven, to knock under, to knuckle down, to knuckle under, to lower one's flag, to show the white feather, to strike one's flag, to succumb, to surrender, to throw in one's hand, to throw in the towel, to yield, to yield oneself, yield), beadja a derekát (knuckle under, to cave in, to knock under, to knuckle down, to knuckle under, to lower one's flag, to strike one's flag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockknay erunday ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield). (various references) покориться (eat humble pie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-k-n-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: uncorked. | |
-3 letters: crunode, dorneck, drunken, knocked, knocker. | |
-4 letters: conked, conker, conned, conner, corked, corned, cunner, docker, ducker, dunker, dunner, enduro, konked, kronen, neuron, nocked, reckon, redock, rocked, rucked, uncork, undock, undoer, undone, unkend. | |
-5 letters: coden, coder, coked, coned, cored, cornu, coude, credo, crone, crude, cured, decor, dekko, donne, douce, dreck, drone, drouk, drunk, dunce. | |
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