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knee
noun (knees )
1 in humans: the joint in the middle of the leg where the lower end of the femur articulates with the upper end of the tibia.
2 a the corresponding joint in the hindlimb of other vertebrates;
b in a horse's foreleg: the joint corresponding to the wrist.
3 (also in compounds ) the area surrounding this joint knee-length .
4 the lap sat with the child on her knee .
5 the part of a garment covering the knee patches on the knee and elbow .
6 something which resembles the knee in action or shape.
7 bot a root upgrowth that trees growing in swamps breathe through.
verb (kneed , kneeing ) to hit, nudge or shove someone or something with the knee.
[Anglo-Saxon cneow ]
at one's mother's knee when one was very young.
bend or bow the knee formal or literary to kneel; to submit.
bring someone to their knees to defeat, prostrate, humiliate or ruin them utterly.
go weak at the knees colloq to be overcome by emotion.
on one's knees
1 kneeling.
2 exhausted; on the verge of utter defeat or collapse.
3 begging.
noun (knees )
1 in humans: the joint in the middle of the leg where the lower end of the femur articulates with the upper end of the tibia.
2 a the corresponding joint in the hindlimb of other vertebrates;
b in a horse's foreleg: the joint corresponding to the wrist.
3 (also in compounds ) the area surrounding this joint knee-length .
4 the lap sat with the child on her knee .
5 the part of a garment covering the knee patches on the knee and elbow .
6 something which resembles the knee in action or shape.
7 bot a root upgrowth that trees growing in swamps breathe through.
verb (kneed , kneeing ) to hit, nudge or shove someone or something with the knee.
[Anglo-Saxon cneow ]
at one's mother's knee when one was very young.
bend or bow the knee formal or literary to kneel; to submit.
bring someone to their knees to defeat, prostrate, humiliate or ruin them utterly.
go weak at the knees colloq to be overcome by emotion.
on one's knees
1 kneeling.
2 exhausted; on the verge of utter defeat or collapse.
3 begging.
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