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Definition of knee verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

knee

verb
 
/niː/
 
/niː/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they knee
 
/niː/
 
/niː/
he / she / it knees
 
/niːz/
 
/niːz/
past simple kneed
 
/niːd/
 
/niːd/
past participle kneed
 
/niːd/
 
/niːd/
-ing form kneeing
 
/ˈniːɪŋ/
 
/ˈniːɪŋ/
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  1. knee somebody/something to hit or push somebody/something with your knee
    • He kneed his attacker in the groin.
    Word OriginOld English cnēow, cnēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch knie and German Knie, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin genu and Greek gonu.
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