knife

The definition of a knife is a tool with a sharp blade and a handle used for cutting or stabbing.

(noun)

  1. The kitchen utensil with a sharp blade and a handle that you use when you are cutting up steak is an example of a knife.
  2. A tool with a sharp blade that a murderer uses to stab someone to death is an example of a knife.

To knife is defined as to cut or stab someone using a tool with a handle and a sharp metal blade.

(verb)

When a murderer stabs someone using a sharp blade, this is an example of a when the murdered knifes his victim.

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See knife in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. knives

  1. a cutting or stabbing instrument with a sharp blade, single-edged or double-edged, set in a handle
  2. a cutting blade, as in a machine

Origin: ME knif < OE cnif, akin to Ger kneif, ON knīfr < IE *gneibh- (> Lith gnaibis, a pinching): for base see knead

transitive verb knifed, knifing

  1. to cut or stab with a knife
  2. Informal to use underhanded methods in order to hurt, defeat, or betray

intransitive verb

to pass into or through something quickly, like a sharp knife

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See knife in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. knives knives (nīvz)
  1. A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
  2. A cutting edge; a blade.
verb knifed knifed, knif·ing, knifes
verb, transitive
  1. To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
  2. Informal To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
verb, intransitive
To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife: The boat knifed through the waves.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English knif

Origin: , from Old English cnīf

Origin: , from Old Norse knīfr

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Related Forms:

  • knifˈer noun

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