knife
noun
an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
knifed
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past participleof knife.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof knife.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
knifenounan instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
Example Sentences
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Hunter knifed through the defense and broke for an 11-yard gain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
The season was hanging by a thread a few minutes later as Yates knifed through a crowd of Rutgers defenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
Al-Shifa was the same hospital where Jihad had been born five months earlier — five months of searching all day for a little food, of nearly getting knifed over a little flour.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
The quick dives of harbor porpoise, with their tiny dorsal, knifed the water.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
A month later, on Rosebriar Road in Atlanta, an alarm clock knifed into the darkness of two o’clock in the morning.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
