Definitions for knelt

knelt knelt

Spelling: [nelt]
IPA: /nɛlt/

Knelt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in knelt (eklnt).

Definitions for knelt

noun

  1. the action or position of kneeling.

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of kneel.

verb (used without object)

  1. to go down or rest on the knees or a knee.

Origin of knelt

before 1000; Middle English knelen, Old English cnēowlian (cognate with Low German knelen, Dutch knielen). See knee, -le

Examples for knelt

Linda rushed to the boulder and knelt again, but she could get no response to her questions.

Harry also knelt on one knee and layed poppies at the grave of the unknown soldier as the last post was played.

She then returned to the mouth of the cave, and knelt down at Richard Digby's feet.

Outside the courthouse, supporters of Martin's family jeered, wept, or knelt in prayer as the verdict came.

Into the little parlor filed the nurses, and knelt, folding their tired hands.

Miss Whitmore knelt and examined the cattle thief curiously.

For some minutes he knelt motionless, as if in prayer, though no sound escaped him.

One of her favorite memories at a red carpet was meeting Jodie Foster, who knelt down to speak at her level.

Her tender face bent in compassion over a marble form so exquisitely pure that I knelt and signed myself.

He knelt beside Glover just as he once had by that injured boy back in Brooklyn.

Word Value for knelt
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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