Knife

What do we mean by knife?

A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle. noun

A cutting edge; a blade. noun

To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife. intransitive verb

To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means. intransitive verb

To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife. intransitive verb

(under the knife) Undergoing surgery. idiom

To stab or kill with a knife.

To endeavor to defeat in a secret or underhand way in an election, as a candidate of one's own party. Political slang, U.S.

A cutting-instrument consisting of a comparatively short blade and a handle, adapted for easy use with the hand. noun

In a wider sense, any small cutting-tool, or any part of a tool or machine having a sharp edge for cutting or scraping: as, the knives of a mowing-machine, printing-press, meat-chopper, straw-cutter, etc. noun

A sword or cutlas; a long cutting-weapon. noun

A saddlers' cutting-tool with a sharp convex edge. noun

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses. noun

A sword or dagger. noun

A tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. noun

Mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity. noun

To prune with the knife. transitive verb

To cut or stab with a knife. transitive verb

Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party). transitive verb

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. noun

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.

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

Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

Words that are spelled similarly to knife:
knife, knipe, knive, nife, knie, kniff, unife.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word knife:
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Words that rhyme with knife:
life, strife, rife, saif, wife, fife, fyfe, alewife, wildlife, midwife, loosestrife, afterlife, housewife, nightlife, midlife, yellowknife, quality of life, full of life, shelf life, still life, half life, real life, phyfe, birdlife, plant life, staff of life, way of life, walk of life, come to life, elixir of life, eternal life, true to life, schleif, time of life, purple loosestrife, man and wife, fantasy life, sporting life, streiff, slife, fyffe, spiked loosestrife, line of life, prime of life, professional life, change of life, business life, hyssop loosestrife, estate for life, right to life, garden loosestrife, pfeiff, standard of life, yellow loosestrife, co-wife, counterlife, greiff, herbalife, metlife, southlife.

Adjectives that are often used to describe knife:
sharp, long, small, large, big, bladed, butcher, pen, scalping, flint, bloody, dull, putty, pointed, handled, bowie, curved, heavy, hot, serrated, jack, edged, thin, blunt, sacrificial, huge, short, swiss, inch, pruning, keen, ordinary, broad, open, rusty, cold, shaped, surgical, clean, fine, electric, hunting, crooked, narrow, plastic, sharpest, switchblade, looking, palette, wooden, table, bread, acto, sheathed, sheath, straight, fatal, broken, drawn, clasp, sharpened, murderous, tiny, flat, stained, golden, cruel, folding, sterile, ceremonial, sickle, slender, deadly, circular, wicked, flexible.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective knife:
grinder, edge, blade, thrower, dagger, edges, chief, handle, boy, wing, handles, hand, edged, wielding, fork, face, grinders, snake, line, yearolds, fighting, makers, folder, sharpener, blades.

Consonant match to knife:
naff, knopf, knuff, neff, knauf, naef, neef, knauff, knief, knoff, knouff.

Words that sound like knife:
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