End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Knocking down is an antonym for end.
Knocking down
Both terms in one sentence
- As they leave for their own time, Bobo steals a wheel of cheese, knocking down a candle in the hay-filled room and starting a fire that can be heard throughout the end credits.
Source: Historical In-Joke -
Freedom Force, though it's only towards the end of the sequel that confrontations start knocking down city blocks by accident.
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Referenced in Deep Rising, at the end of which something unseen but HUGE moves toward the beach and the survivors, knocking down trees as it approaches.
Source: Kaiju
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Knocking down and End. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/knocking_down
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