Knifed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /naɪft/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Knifed is an adjective meaning Having been cut or stabbed with a knife.
Meaning
Having been cut or stabbed with a knife.
More Meanings
- (in combination) Having a knife (blade-like part) of the specified type.
- simple past and past participle of knife
- (chiefly in combination) Wearing or carrying (a specified type of) knife (utensil or tool).
Example Sentences
Most of the Raven’s crew would be fighting with their long-knifed cutlasses, the sailors’ weapon of choice.
The police were on the pavement outside; the knifed man lay holding his side with blood through his fingers spreading up his cheap shirt like litmus paper turning red.
A short-knifed wheat header, such as is used in harvesting wheat and barley in California, if especially strongly built, has been suggested as a practicable contrivance.
It is despicable what the sharp-knifed general and his army have done to the honorable Commander Francisco Caso y Luengo, one of our most revered Spanish military figures.
Word Forms
- knived
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cut, cleaved, killed, murdered, diluted, skipped.
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