knife thrust

Questions about knife thrust

What is another word for knife thrust?

It depends which knife thrust you mean. In the sense “a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument”, the synonyms are stab, thrust. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of knife thrust?

WordNet records no antonym for knife thrust. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for knife thrust come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of knife thrust

• Full entry for knife thrustAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for knife thrustWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.