All knock over antonyms

verb knock over

• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
• bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
• dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• ascend — If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• float — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
• rescue — to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
• underwhelm — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
• unite — to join, combine, or incorporate so as to form a single whole or unit.
• construct — to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied
• combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
• build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
• give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• pursue — to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• rough up — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• jag — a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge: a crying jag; a talking jag.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• forfeit — a fine; penalty.
• give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• release — to lease again.
• institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
• uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• straighten — make straight
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
• validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
• sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.