knife

1. 1.

   use a knife on

   “The victim was knifed to death”

   Synonymsstab

   Broaderinjure

   Narrowerponiardbayonet

Other forms of knife

plural

knives

past tense

knifed·

present participle

knifing·

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.

Questions about knife

What does knife mean?

knife means "edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knife?

knife has 1 syllable: knife. In IPA it is /ˈnaɪf/.

What is another word for knife?

Close synonyms include tongue, stab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knife a common word?

knife is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with knife?

1 word rhymes with knife. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.