kneel

Kneel is defined as to rest on one or both knees.

(verb)

An example of kneel is how children position themselves in church while receiving their first communion in the Catholic church.

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See kneel in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb knelt or kneeled, kneeling

to bend or rest on a knee or the knees

Origin: ME knelen < OE cneowlian < cneow, knee

See kneel in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intransitive verb knelt knelt (nĕlt) or kneeled, kneel·ing, kneels
To go down or rest on one or both knees.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English knelen

Origin: , from Old English cnēowlian; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots

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