Kneel

Word KNEEL
Character 5
Hyphenation kneel
Pronunciations /niːl/

Definitions and meanings of "Kneel"

What do we mean by kneel?

To go down or rest on one or both knees. intransitive verb

To go down on the knees or a knee; bend the legs at the knees and rest for a time upon them, or upon one of them, as in supplication or homage.

To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down. intransitive verb

To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees. verb

Supporting yourself on your knees noun

Rest one's weight on one's knees verb

To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

To cause to kneel.

To rest on (one's) knees

Synonyms and Antonyms for Kneel

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The word "kneel" in example sentences

Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness. ❋ Honorh (2009)

The inability to kneel is seen as the very essence of the diabolical. ❋ John (2004)

Sure, we've gotten used to saying "African American," but it has become a kind of frozen expression, like, indeed ice cream (we don't think about it being "cream of ice" when saying "eyescream") or even knee-l (the word kneel has knee in it - did you ever think about it)? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sure, we've gotten used to saying "African American," but it has become a kind of frozen expression, like, indeed ice cream (we don't think about it being "cream of ice" when saying "eyescream") or even knee-l (the word kneel has knee in i--- did you ever think about it)? ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was Thomas, tousle-haired and serious, who went without a word to kneel down by Will. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2010)

Nature intended us to kneel, which is preferable to standing, statue-like, exacting obeisance from others. ❋ Augusta Jane (1864)

In the sport known as the kneel jump, the athlete crouches in a hunting position on frozen water and aims to jump as far a span as possible with good balance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Phillips took the blame, but Garrett, obviously, should have known to call a kneel down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yeah, I remember this book being a slog, but no comments on the "kneel" scene at the end of the novel? ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

Do the drivers of those same buses, upon seeing someone using a cane, think to use the 'kneel' function of their bus to let said passenger with cane on? ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

Estos cxies devo ne nur saluti la cxapelon, sed ankaux genufleksi ( "kneel") antaux la stango. ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)

Gilgamesh's defeat in the encounter with Enkidu (Pennsylvania tablet, l. 227), where Gilgamesh is represented as forced to "kneel" to the ground. ❋ Anonymous (1891)

Gesenius says, the original sense is to "kneel," and thus it came to mean bending the knee in order to invoke either a blessing or a curse. ❋ Unknown (1871)

_ I verily believe that more reverence ariseth to the sacrament from kneeling than is due to it; but I am sure there is no less true reverence of that holy sacrament among such as kneel not in the receiving of it, than among such as do kneel. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

You cannot make that change with "kneel," which cannot become "kneeled" unless you hope to demonstrate that a speaker or writer is using a nonstandard form of English. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has told cheering supporters at a protest in the capital that Sudan would not "kneel" to colonialists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cross Reference for Kneel

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