Knife

Quick meaning: Knife is a noun meaning A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.

Meaning

A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.

More Meanings

1. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
2. (transitive) To cut with a knife.
3. (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
4. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
5. (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
6. (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
7. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

Example Sentences

The boat knifed through the water.

She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.

He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.

The plane has been hijacked. They've already knifed a guy.

Word Forms

• knives
• knive
• knifes
• knifing
• knifed

Synonyms for knife

Depending on context, synonyms include burn, quisle, assfuck, betray, cop out, double-cross.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stab, tongue, blade, chopper, shiv, razor.

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