knock sth out
— phrasal verb with knock uk/nɒk/us/nɑːk/verb
(PRODUCE)
informal to produce something quickly without spending time thinking about the details:
I've knocked out a first draft of the report that we can amend at a later date.
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knock sth off
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Creating and producing
- bear fruit idiom
- bring
- bring sth out
- churn sth out
- cobble
- craft
- on the go idiom
- overproduce
- patch
- patch sth together
- phase
- phase sth in
- pump
- raise
- rush
- turn sth out
- uncreative
- unleash
- unproductive
- wrought
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(DESTROY)
If something such as a piece of equipment is knocked out by something else, it stops working or is damaged or destroyed:
The surge in the power supply knocked out all the computers.
Enemy aircraft have knocked out 25 tanks.
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Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- teardown
- wipe
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