- Strike hard - To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. - A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. - To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise. - To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. - To be slatternly. - To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
- Kill or destroy - Strike or hit hard - Strike sharply - To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with
any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand;
as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone. - To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking
or hurling. - To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any
kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or
with an arrow or other instrument. - To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- Belittle - Hit - Nick - Rap on a door - To drive or be driven against something; to strike
against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. - To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door. - To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by
striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball
with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the
table.