Knock and Search

Knock

Knock verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.

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Search and knock are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Search" instead a verb "Knock".

Nearby Words: knocked, knockout, knockdown, knocking, knocker

Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.

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Knock and search are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Knock" instead a verb "Search".

body	knock body	search body
train	knock train	search train
time	knock time	search time
car	knock car	search car
Other words: anyone, humans, times, points.

Instead, you have to search underwater for a pencil, used as a sword to knock the enemies down.

Source: Broken Bridge
In Dragon Ball when Goku and friends are captured by Emperor Pilaf he floods their prison with sleeping gas to knock them out so he can search for the remaining dragon ball they have while they're all unconscious and can't do anything.

Source: Knockout Gas
Curiosity Killed the Cast: Doctor Gerard barging into the house in search Grandma Janowski, and John and Rosalie's complaints about the smells emanating from the locked room making them threaten to knock in the door (Ethel even points out before killing Rosalie that she should have just ignored it).

Source: Film / Criminally Insane

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