kneel Definition
kneel (nēl)
intransitive verb knelt or kneeled, kneel′·ing
to bend or rest on a knee or the knees
Etymology: ME knelen < OE cneowlian < cneow, knee
kneel Synonyms
kneel
v.
kneel Usage Examples
Object
- coward: How can a kneeling coward know what it's like to fall?
- mat: Turn up with a pair of gardening gloves and a kneeling mat and everyone just knows you've never done it before.
- figure: Round the tomb are 14 kneeling figures of children.
- position: Slowly, he rose from his kneeling position on the ground.
- chair: The Balans chair ( a kneeling chair ) is one example.
Preposition: on
- four: Why not try: Single Leg Curls: Kneel on all fours with your arms slightly wider than your shoulders.
- knee: Don't always kneel on one knee, alternate knees or kneel on both knees.
- cushion: Back to the front room, knelt on cushions leaning over birth ball.
- floor: I see the teenager kneeling on the floor, her head in her mother's lap.
Preposition: at
- altar: This just involves kneeling at the altar, where Mark and Sonia place their hands on your head and pray for healing.
- desk: Clerk's mural effigy is shown in armor, kneeling at a prayer desk with a book in front of him.
- foot: In a touching moment, I knelt at the foot of his bed to pay final respects.
Noun used with modifier
I: For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
Modifying Another Word
humbly: He appears to come to Jesus humbly kneeling with a request.
Followed by an intransitive particle
down: The Brother knelt down at the foot of the bed with his feet out of the door.
Preposition: before
altar: When the priest called them to come forward some knelt before the altar and some didn't.
Infinitive complement
pray: But before getting into bed, he knelt down to pray.
Preposition: in
- prayer: Could Godiva once have really knelt in prayer here?
- front: He said nothing, instead he knelt in front of her, his dark hair falling around his face.
Preposition: for
prayer: Four sailors knelt for prayer down in the depths of the battleship, ' North Carolina ' , anchored in the harbor.

