Knife - Wiktionary

English

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Alternative forms

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• (noun): knyfe (obsolete)
• (verb): knive (uncommon)

Etymology

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From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.

The verb knife is attested since the 1860s;[1] the variant knive is attested since 1733.

Cognates

Cognate with Yola kunnife (“knife”), North Frisian knif (“knife”), Dutch knijf (“long pointy knife, poniard”), German Knifte (“rifle; thick slicebread”), German Low German Knief (“knife”), Luxembourgish Knäip (“paring knife”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kniv (“knife”), Faroese knívur (“knife”), Icelandic hnífur, knífur (“knife”), Swedish knif, kniv (“knife”).

Pronunciation

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• enPR: nīf, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /naɪf/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /nɑɪf/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -aɪf

Noun

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knife (plural knives)

1. 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. He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.
   • 2007, Scott Smith, The Ruins, page 273:Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.
2. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
3. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

Hypernyms

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• cold weapon, edged weapon, tool

Hyponyms

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• 007 knife
• air knife
• athame
• ballistic knife
• banana knife
• Barlow knife
• Batangas knife
• bayonet
• bistoury
• Bolo knife
• boning knife
• boot knife
• Bowie knife, bowie knife
• bread knife
• bush knife
• butcher knife, butchers' knife, butcher's knife
• butterfly knife
• butterknife
• butter knife
• cane knife
• carpet knife
• carving knife
• case knife
• cheese knife
• chef's knife
• clasp-knife, clasp knife
• clicking knife
• cook's knife
• craft knife
• dagger
• deer antler knife
• deer horn knife
• dinner knife
• dirk
• dirk knife
• diving knife
• drawing knife
• drawknife
• eating knife
• electric carving knife
• electric knife
• Exacto knife
• falling knife
• fascine knife
• filleting knife
• fillet knife
• fish-knife
• fish knife
• fixie
• flick-knife
• flick knife
• folder
• folding knife
• gamma knife
• grapefruit knife
• gravity knife
• Gurkha knife
• hay knife
• herb knife
• hobby knife
• hunting knife
• jack-knife
• jack-knife barber
• Khyber knife
• kitchen knife
• leather knife
• Lebsche knife
• linoleum knife
• machete
• marking knife
• molecular knife
• moon-knife
• neck knife
• oyster knife
• oyster-shucking knife
• painting knife
• palette knife
• paper-knife
• paper knife
• paring knife
• penknife
• petty knife
• pocket knife
• pocket-knife
• pocketknife
• poniard
• putty knife
• race knife
• radio knife
• Rambo knife
• rasing-knife
• reed knife
• riving knife
• scalpel
• scalping knife
• scrieve knife
• sheath knife
• sheath-knife
• shucking knife
• snow knife
• squash knife
• Stanley knife
• steak knife
• stiletto
• survival knife
• sushi knife
• Swiss Army knife
• switchblade
• table knife
• tanto knife
• throwing knife
• tomato knife
• trench knife
• twist of the knife
• utility knife
• voiding knife
• waiter's knife
• white handled knife
• Yakutian knife
• Yakut knife
• zombie knife

Coordinate terms

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• (tool or weapon for cutting): awl, cake slice, cake-slice, cutting tool, rapier, sword

Derived terms

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• before you can say knife
• bring a knife to a gunfight
• byknife
• catch a falling knife
• cut deeper than a knife
• cut like a knife
• cut with a knife and fork
• cyberknife
• did my back hurt your knife
• electroknife
• falling knife
• histoknife
• hot-knife
• knife and fork
• knife-and-fork
• knife arch
• knifeblade
• knife block
• knifeboard
• knife-boy
• knife-coloured
• knife control
• knifecraft
• knifecrime, knife crime
• knife-ear, knife ear
• knife-edge effect
• knife edge, knife-edge
• knife fight
• knifefish
• knifeful
• knife game
• knifegrinder, knife grinder
• knifehand
• knife-handle
• knifejaw
• knifeless
• knifelike
• knifemaker
• knifemaking
• knifeman
• knife money
• knifeplay
• knife pleat
• knifepoint
• knifeproof
• knifer
• knife-rest
• knife rest
• knife roll
• knifery
• knifesman
• knifesmith
• knifestory
• knife switch
• knife thrower
• knife twister
• knife-twister
• knife up
• knife urn
• knife wand
• knifework
• knived
• knork
• like a hot knife through butter
• like a knife through butter
• microknife
• not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• paperknife
• shaving knife
• shove knife
• spife
• stick the knife in
• storyknife
• take a knife to a gunfight
• turn the knife
• turn the knife in the wound
• twist the knife
• twist the knife in the wound
• under the knife
• vibroknife
• war to the knife
• Yellowknife
• you could cut the air with a knife
• you could cut the atmosphere with a knife

Descendants

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• Sranan Tongo: nefi
• → Japanese: ナイフ
• → Korean: 나이프 (naipeu)
• → Portuguese: naifa
• → Samoan: naifi

Translations

[edit] utensil or tool designed for cutting

Abkhaz: ацҳа (acḥa) Acehnese: sikin Afrikaans: mes (af) Aghwan: please add this translation if you can Ainu: please add this translation if you can Akan: ɔsekan, sekan Alabama: talkoosa Albanian: thikë (sq) f Altai: Southern Altai: бычак (bïčak) Amharic: ቢላ f (bila) Apache: Western Apache: besh Arabic: سِكِّين m or f (sikkīn), مُدْيَة f (mudya) Algerian Arabic: موس Egyptian Arabic: سكينة f (sikkīna) Gulf Arabic: سچين m (siččīn) Hijazi Arabic: سكينة f (sakkīna) Moroccan Arabic: موس (muus) South Levantine Arabic: سكينة f (sikkīne, sikkīna) Aragonese: cuitiello (an) m Aramaic: סכינא f (sakkīnā) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܲܟܝܼܢܵܐ m (sakīnā), ܣܟܝܼܢܬܵܐ f (skīntā) Classical Syriac: ܣܟܝܢܐ f (sakkīnā) Armenian: դանակ (hy) (danak) Aromanian: cãtsut n, cutsut n Assamese: ছুৰী (suri) Asturian: cuchiellu (ast) m, cuchellu m Avar: нус (nus) Aymara: khariña (ay) Azerbaijani: bıçaq (az), çaqqı Banjarese: lading (bjn) Bashkir: бысаҡ (bısaq) Basque: labana (eu), aizto (eu) Bats: ნეკ (neḳ) Belarusian: нож m (nož) Bengali: ছুরি (bn) (churi), চাকু (bn) (caku) Bhojpuri: छुरी (churī) Bidayuh: Bau Bidayuh: please add this translation if you can Bikol: Central Bikol: please add this translation if you can Breton: kontell (br) f Bulgarian: нож (bg) m (nož) Burmese: ဓား (my) (dha:) Buryat: хутага (xutaga) Carpathian Rusyn: костура f (kostura), нуж m (nuž) Catalan: ganivet (ca) m, coltell (ca) m Chakma: please add this translation if you can Chamicuro: amesheta Chechen: урс (urs) Cherokee: ᎭᏰᎳᏍᏗ (hayelasdi) Cheyenne: motšėške Chinese: Cantonese: 刀 (dou1) Dungan: до (do) Eastern Min: 刀 (dŏ̤) Hakka: 刀 (tô) Hokkien: 刀 (to) Mandarin: 刀 (zh) (dāo), 刀子 (zh) (dāozi) Wu: 刀 Chuvash: ҫӗҫӗ (śĕś̬ĕ) Circassian: East Circassian: сэ (kbd) (sɛ) West Circassian: сэ (sɛ) Comorian: Ngazidja Comorian: putshari Coptic: ⲑⲟⲕ (thok), ϭⲟⲣⲧⲉ (čorte) Cornish: kollell f Corsican: cultedda m, cultella m Cree: ᒨᐦᑯᒫᓐ (moohkomaan) Czech: nůž (cs) m Dalmatian: cortial m Danish: kniv (da) c Dhivehi: ވަޅި (vaḷi) Dolgan: баһак (bahak) Dongxiang: khudogvo Dutch: mes (nl) n Dzongkha: ཀ་ཀྲ་ལ (ka kra la) Elfdalian: knaiv m Erzya: пеель (pejeľ) Esperanto: tranĉilo Estonian: nuga (et) (generic), väits Evenki: пурта (purta) Faroese: knívur m Fijian: isele Finnish: veitsi (fi), puukko (fi) French: couteau (fr) m Frisian: North Frisian: Knif c (Sylt) Saterland Frisian: Soaks n West Frisian: mes (fy) Friulian: curtìš m Gagauz: bıçak Galician: coitelo (gl) m Georgian: დანა (ka) (dana) German: Messer (de) n Alemannic German: Mässer n Central Franconian: Metz n Greek: μαχαίρι (el) n (machaíri) Ancient Greek: μάχαιρα f (mákhaira) Mariupol Greek: маше́р (mašér), машэ́р (mašér) Greenlandic: savik Guarani: Mbya Guarani: kyxe Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) kyse (gn) Gujarati: છરી f (charī) Haitian Creole: kouto Hausa: wuƙa (ha) Hebrew: סַכִּין (he) m or f (sakín) Hindi: छुरी (hi) f (churī), चाक़ू m (cāqū) Hmong: White Hmong: riam, rab riam, ntaj Hungarian: kés (hu) Icelandic: hnífur (is) m Ido: kultelo (io) Igbo: nma Ilocano: kutsilio Indonesian: pisau (id) Ingrian: veitsi, nuka, kuras (folk poetic) Ingush: урс (urs) Interlingua: cultello Inuktitut: ᓴᕕᒃ (safik), savik Inupiaq: savik Irish: scian (ga) f Istriot: curtielo m Italian: coltello (it) m Ivatan: kuchiliu Japanese: ナイフ (ja) (naifu), 小刀 (ja) (こがたな, kogatana) Jarai: thŏng Javanese: lading Kankanaey: gipan Kannada: ಚಾಕು (cāku), ಕತ್ತಿ (kn) (katti) Kapampangan: kutsiliu Karachay-Balkar: бычакъ (bıçaq) Karakalpak: pıshaq Karelian: veičči Kashubian: nòž m Kazakh: пышақ (kk) (pyşaq) Khakas: пычах (pıçax) Khanty: Northern Khanty: (please verify) кеши (kješi) Khmer: កាំបិត (km) (kambət) Kituba: mbele Kom (Cameroon): fɨ̂ nyùe (knife for harvesting sorghum) Kongo: mbele Korean: 칼 (ko) (kal), 나이프 (ko) (naipeu) Koryak: вʼала (wala) Kristang: fake Kumyk: бичакъ (biçaq) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کێرد (kêrd), چەقۆ (ckb) (çeqo) Northern Kurdish: kêr (ku) f, kêrik (ku) f Kyrgyz: бычак (ky) (bıcak) Lao: ມີດ (lo) (mīt), ພ້າ (phā) Latgalian: nazs m, (big) tutyns m Latin: culter m Latvian: nazis m Laz: ხამი (xami) Limburgish: mets (li) n Lingala: mbɛlí class 9/10 Lithuanian: peilis m Lombard: cortell (lmo) m Lü: ᦙᦲᧆ (miid), ᦘᦱᧉ (phaa²) Luhya: kumubano Luxembourgish: Messer n Macedonian: нож (mk) m (nož) Malay: pisau (ms) Malayalam: കത്തി (ml) (katti) Maltese: sikkina f Manchu: ᡥᡠᠸᡝᠰᡳ (huwesi) Manx: skynn f Māori: naihi Marathi: सुरी (mr) f (surī) Mari: Eastern Mari: кӱзӧ (küzö) Western Mari: please add this translation if you can Maricopa: kwar'o Melanau: Central Melanau: please add this translation if you can Mingrelian: ხამუ (xamu) Mirandese: faca f Mòcheno: messer n Moksha: пеель (pejeľ) Mongolian: Cyrillic: хутга (mn) (xutga) Mongolian script: ᠬᠢᠲᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (kitug-a) Mwani: kifyu Nauruan: debitsi Navajo: béésh Neapolitan: curtiello m Nepali: चक्कु (ne) (cakku) Newar: कुँइँ (kũĩ) Norman: couoté m (France), couté m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: kniv (no) m Nynorsk: kniv m Nupe: èbi Nǀuu: nǂona (Western), nǂuna (Eastern) Occitan: cotèl (oc) m Odia: ଛୁରୀ (or) (churi) Ojibwe: mookomaan Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: ножь m (nožĭ) Old East Slavic: ножь m (nožĭ) Old English: seax n Old Tupi: kysé Oromo: haaduu Ossetian: кард (kard) Pannonian Rusyn: нож m (nož) Pashto: چاقو (ps) (čâqú), چاړه (ps) f (čāṛᶕ) Persian: Dari: چَاقُو (fa) (čāqū) Iranian Persian: کارْد (fa) (kârd), چاقو (fa) (čâġu), پِچَق (pečaġ) Plautdietsch: Massa n Polabian: nüz m Polish: nóż (pl) m Portuguese: faca (pt) f Punjabi: ਚਾਕੂ m (cākū) Quechua: khallana, khuchuna Rohingya: suri Romani: ćhuri f Romanian: cuțit (ro) n Russian: нож (ru) m (nož), но́жик (ru) m (nóžik) Rwanda-Rundi: imbugita class 9/10 Sami: Northern Sami: niibi Skolt Sami: neiʹbb Southern Sami: nejpie Samoan: naifi Samogitian: pėilis m Sango: zembe (sg) Sanskrit: छुरी (sa) (churī) Sardinian: gorteddu m, gurteddu m, cultedhu m, culteddu m, boltedhu m, bulteddu m, lepa f Scots: knyfe, knife Scottish Gaelic: sgian f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нож m Latin: nož (sh) m Shan: မိတ်ႈ (shn) (mīt), ၽႃႉ (shn) (phâ̰a) Sherpa: གྲིག (grig) Shona: banga Shor: пычақ (pıçaq) Sicilian: cuteddu (scn) m Sikkimese: གྱི་ཅུང (gyi cung) Silesian: please add this translation if you can Sindhi: چاقون (cāqūṁ) Sinhalese: දණහිස (daṇahisa) Slovak: nôž (sk) m Slovene: nož (sl) m Somali: mindi (so) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: nož m Upper Sorbian: nоž m Sotho: thipa Spanish: cuchillo (es) m Sranan Tongo: nefi Sundanese: péso (su) Svan: გა̈ჩ (gäč) Swahili: kisu (sw) Swedish: kniv (sv) c Sylheti: ꠍꠥꠞꠤ (súri) Tagalog: kampit (tl), kutsilyo (tl) Tajik: корд (tg) (kord), чоқу (čoqu) Tamil: கத்தி (ta) (katti) Tarifit: uzzar m Tatar: пычак (tt) (pıçaq) Telugu: కత్తి (te) (katti) Tetum: tudik Thai: มีด (th) (mîit), พร้า (th) (práa) Tibetan: ཀ་ཀྲ་ལ (ka kra la), གྲི (gri) Tlingit: lítaa Tocharian B: kṣur, yepe Tok Pisin: naip Tongan: hele Tswana: thipa Turkish: bıçak (tr) Ottoman Turkish: بیچاق (bıçak), سكین (sikkin) Turkmen: pyçak Tuvan: бижек (bijek) Udmurt: пурт (purt) Ukrainian: ніж (uk) m (niž) Urdu: چُھری f (churī), چاقُو m (cāqū), کارْد m (kārd) Uyghur: پىچاق (pichaq) Uzbek: pichoq (uz) Venetan: cortèƚo (vec) m, cortèl m Veps: veič Vietnamese: dao (vi) Vilamovian: maoser n Volapük: neif (vo) Võro: väitś Votic: kuraz Walloon: coutea (wa) m Welsh: cyllell (cy) f Wolof: paaka (wo) Xhosa: imela class 9/10 Yaghnobi: корт (kort) Yakut: быһах (bïhaq) Yámana: wila Yiddish: מעסער m or n (meser) Yucatec Maya: please add this translation if you can Yup'ik: nuussiq Zazaki: kardi (diq) Zhuang: cax Zulu: ummese (zu) class 3/4 Zuni: achiyanne

weapon

Afrikaans: mes (af) Akkadian: patrum m or f Arabic: خَنْجَر m (ḵanjar) Egyptian Arabic: خنجر m (ḵángar) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܢܓ̰ܵܪܵܐ m (ḥanjārā), ܣܲܟܝܼܢܵܐ m (sakīnā) Armenian: դանակ (hy) (danak) Avar: нус (nus) Bulgarian: кинжал (bg) m (kinžal) Catalan: coltell (ca) m, daga (ca) f, ganivet (ca) m, punyal (ca) m Cherokee: ᎭᏰᎳᏍᏗ (hayelasdi) Chinese: Mandarin: 刀 (zh) (dāo) Comorian: Ngazidja Comorian: putshari Czech: nůž (cs) m Danish: kniv (da) c Dutch: mes (nl) n Egyptian: (jry), (zft) Estonian: puss (et), tääk (et) (dagger) Finnish: puukko (fi), veitsi (fi); tikari (fi) (dagger) French: couteau (fr) m Frisian: West Frisian: mes (fy) Galician: coitelo (gl) m Georgian: დანა (ka) (dana) German: Messer (de) n Greek: μαχαίρι (el) n (machaíri) Ancient Greek: μάχαιρα f (mákhaira) Hebrew: סַכִּין (he) m or f (sakín) Hungarian: kés (hu) Icelandic: hnífur (is) m Indonesian: pisau (id) Irish: scian (ga) f Italian: coltello (it) m Japanese: ナイフ (ja) (naifu), 短剣 (ja) (たんけん, tanken), 小刀 (ja) (しょうとう, shōtō), 刀 (ja) (かたな, katana) Khmer: កាំបិត (km) (kambət) Korean: 칼 (ko) (kal) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: چەقۆ (ckb) (çeqo) Latin: culter Latvian: nazis m Lithuanian: peilis m Macedonian: нож (mk) m (nož) Neapolitan: curtiello m Norman: couoté m (France), couté m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: kniv (no) m Nynorsk: kniv m Ojibwe: mookomaan Persian: Iranian Persian: خَنْجَر (xanjar) Plautdietsch: Massa n Polish: nóż (pl) m Portuguese: faca (pt) f Romani: shuri f Russian: нож (ru) m (nož), перо́ (ru) n (peró) (lit.: "feather", "quill", criminal slang), фи́нка (ru) f (fínka) (Finnish knife), теса́к (ru) m (tesák) (slang for "финка") Scottish Gaelic: sgian f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нож m Latin: nož (sh) m Slovene: nož (sl) m Sotho: thipa Spanish: cuchillo (es) m, puñal (es) m, serranil m Swahili: kisu (sw) Swedish: dolk (sv) c, kniv (sv) c Tarifit: uzzar m Tok Pisin: naip Ukrainian: ніж (uk) m (niž) Walloon: coutea (wa) m

any blade-like part designed for cutting

Afrikaans: lem Arabic: نَصْل (ar) m (naṣl), شَفْرَة f (šafra) Egyptian Arabic: موس m (mūs) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܟܝܼܢܬܵܐ f (skīnta) Bulgarian: нож (bg) m (nož) Catalan: ganivet (ca) m Czech: nůž (cs) Danish: kniv (da) c Dutch: mes (nl), lemmet (nl) Estonian: tera (et) Finnish: terä (fi), veitsi (fi) French: couteau (fr) m Frisian: West Frisian: mes (fy) German: Messer (de) n Greek: λεπίδα (el) f (lepída) Hebrew: סַכִּין (he) m or f (sakín) Hungarian: kés (hu) Icelandic: hnífur (is) m Italian: lama (it) f Latvian: nazis m Lithuanian: peilis m Norman: couoté m (France), couté m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: knivblad n Ojibwe: mookomaan Persian: Iranian Persian: تیغ (fa) (tiġ) Polish: nóż (pl) m Portuguese: faca (pt) f Romani: shuri f Russian: нож (ru) m (nož), ле́звие (ru) n (lézvije) Spanish: cuchillo (es) m Swahili: kisu (sw) Tarifit: uzzar m Turkish: bıçak (tr) Ukrainian: ле́зо n (lézo) Woiwurrung: kal-boon-kal-boon

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Basque: (please verify) aizto (eu), (please verify) haiztoa Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 刀 (zh) (dāo), (please verify) 刀子 (zh) (dāozi) Corsican: (please verify) cultellu m Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) kyse (gn) Interlingua: (please verify) cultello Lithuanian: (please verify) peilis m Malayalam: (please verify) കത്തി (ml) (katti) Rohingya: (please verify) súri Romani: (please verify) shuri Slovak: (please verify) nôž (sk) m Tagalog: (please verify) kutsilyo (tl) Telugu: (please verify) చాకు (te) (cāku), (please verify) కత్తి (te) (katti) Thai: (please verify) มีด (th) (mîit) Vietnamese: (please verify) dao (vi)

See also

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• knife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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knife (third-person singular simple present knifes, present participle knifing, simple past and past participle knifed)

1. (transitive) To cut with a knife.
2. (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
   • 1843, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 31, Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, page 236:One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought before a court-martial, was condemned to fifteen years at the galleys.
   • 2012, Robert Biswas-Diener, The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 92:The plane has been hijacked. They've already knifed a guy.
   • 2015, Ross H. Spencer, The Fedorovich File, Diversion Books, →ISBN, page 211:Naw, they found him in the pissery of some gin mill near the Mohawk West terminal—he'd been knifed.
3. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife. The boat knifed through the water.
4. (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate. Synonyms: burn, quisle, stab in the back; see also Thesaurus:betray
5. (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.

Derived terms

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• knife up

Translations

[edit] to use a knife to cut

Azerbaijani: bıçaqnan kəsmək Bulgarian: режа (bg) (reža) Catalan: tallar (ca) Danish: skære (da) Estonian: lõikama (et) Finnish: leikata (fi) Macedonian: се́че (séče), ре́же (réže) Norwegian: Bokmål: skjære (no) Portuguese: cortar com (uma) faca Russian: ре́зать (ru) impf (rézatʹ), поре́зать (ru) pf (porézatʹ) Swedish: skära (sv), knivhugga (sv)

to use a knife to injure or kill

Azerbaijani: bıçaqlamaq Catalan: acoltellar (ca), apunyalar (ca) Danish: (please verify) stikke med kniv Estonian: pussitama, nuga andma, suskama, veristama (et) Finnish: puukottaa (fi) French: frapper d'un coup de couteau Galician: acoitelar (gl) German: messern (de) Greek: μαχαιρώνω (el) (machairóno) Hungarian: késel (hu) Italian: accoltellare (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: hugge (med kniv (no)) Portuguese: esfaquear Romanian: a da o lovitură de cuțit Romansh: cuntellar Russian: прире́зать (ru) pf (prirézatʹ), заре́зать (ru) pf (zarézatʹ), заколо́ть (ru) pf (zakolótʹ) Spanish: acuchillar (es) Swedish: hugga (sv) (med kniv (sv)), kniva (sv)

to cut through as if with a knife

Bulgarian: пробождам (bg) (proboždam) Danish: skære (da) Finnish: leikata (fi) Portuguese: cortar (pt) Swedish: skära (sv)

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Swedish: (please verify) knivhugga (sv)

References

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1. ^ “knife”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

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• Finke

Middle English

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Noun

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knife

1. alternative form of knyf