Definitions for knife

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knife knife

Spelling: [nahyf]

IPA: /naɪf/

Knife is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in knife (efikn).

Definitions for knife

noun

1. an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
2. a knifelike weapon; dagger or short sword.
3. any blade for cutting, as in a tool or machine.

Idioms

1. under the knife, in surgery; undergoing a medical operation:

verb (used with object)

1. to apply a knife to; cut, stab, etc., with a knife.
2. to attempt to defeat or undermine in a secret or underhanded way.

verb (used without object)

1. to move or cleave through something with or as if with a knife:

Origin of knife

before 1100; Middle English knif, Old English cnīf; cognate with Dutch knijf, German Kneif, Old Norse knīfr

Examples for knife

Fish called on knife and told him that he did not care for money.

knife, however, must promise to leave his land to his son-in-law in case he died.

The cop then says, “Put the knife on the table right there.”

It was brought—but, by order of the huissier, only one knife was placed on the table.

“Stand the f--- away from the knife right now, man,” the cop says.

He made signs for me to give him the knife, but I could not, as we were very short of knives.

Cut deeper; the knife is too short: deeper, mia brave Corneliolina!

But in the next instant, Peters is stepping back to the table and snatching up the knife.

I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.

The cop reholsters his gun, and it seems to have ended with no further bloodshed as he moves to retrieve the knife.