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knead is a verb meaning "make uniform". It carries 2 recorded senses.
make uniform
“knead dough”
“work the clay until it is soft”
manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes
“She rubbed down her child with a sponge”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for knead come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.