Kneel

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  • intransitive verb. To go down or rest on one or both knees.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To go down on the knees or a knee; bend the legs at the knees and rest for a time upon them, or upon one of them, as in supplication or homage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. supporting yourself on your knees
  • verb. rest one's weight on one's knees
  • Word Usage
    "Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness."
    Form
    kneeled  kneeler  kneeling  knelt  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    motility  motion  move  movement  rest  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Biel  Brasil  Camille  Cecile  Cele  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    knelt  
    verb-form
    kneeled  kneeling  kneels  knelt