Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to knife
Participle: knifed
Gerund: knifing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | knife |
| you | knife |
| he;she;it | knifes |
| we | knife |
| you | knife |
| they | knife |
Perfect
| I | have knifed |
| you | have knifed |
| he;she;it | has knifed |
| we | have knifed |
| you | have knifed |
| they | have knifed |
Past
| I | knifed |
| you | knifed |
| he;she;it | knifed |
| we | knifed |
| you | knifed |
| they | knifed |
Pluperfect
| I | had knifed |
| you | had knifed |
| he;she;it | had knifed |
| we | had knifed |
| you | had knifed |
| they | had knifed |
Future
| I | will knife |
| you | will knife |
| he;she;it | will knife |
| we | will knife |
| you | will knife |
| they | will knife |
Future Perfect
| I | will have knifed |
| you | will have knifed |
| he;she;it | will have knifed |
| we | will have knifed |
| you | will have knifed |
| they | will have knifed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | knife |
| you | knife |
| he;she;it | knife |
| we | knife |
| you | knife |
| they | knife |
Perfect
| I | have knifed |
| you | have knifed |
| he;she;it | have knifed |
| we | have knifed |
| you | have knifed |
| they | have knifed |
Imperfect
| I | knifed |
| you | knifed |
| he;she;it | knifed |
| we | knifed |
| you | knifed |
| they | knifed |
Pluperfect
| I | had knifed |
| you | had knifed |
| he;she;it | had knifed |
| we | had knifed |
| you | had knifed |
| they | had knifed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would knife |
| you | would knife |
| he;she;it | would knife |
| we | would knife |
| you | would knife |
| they | would knife |
Perfect
| I | would have knifed |
| you | would have knifed |
| he;she;it | would have knifed |
| we | would have knifed |
| you | would have knifed |
| they | would have knifed |
Imperative
| you | knife |
| we | Let's knife |
| you | knife |
Verbs conjugated like 'knife'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'knife'
kife,
knive,
fife,
gnide,
kike,
kipe,
kite,
kline,
knee,
knick,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
2. * The verb is first attested in 1865. The variant knive is first attested in 1733.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Yola kunnife (“knife”), North Frisian knif (“knife”), Dutch knijf (“long pointy knife, poniard”), German Knifte (“rifle; thick slicebread”), German Low German Knief (“knife”), Luxembourgish Knäip (“paring knife”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk kniv (“knife”), Faroese knívur (“knife”), Icelandic hnífur, knífur (“knife”), Swedish knif, kniv (“knife”).
Sample Sentences
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She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
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One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought before a court-martial, was condemned to fifteen years at the galleys. [1843, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 31, Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, page 236:]
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The plane has been hijacked. They've already knifed a guy. [2012, Robert Biswas-Diener, The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 92:]
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Naw, they found him in the pissery of some gin mill near the Mohawk West terminal—he'd been knifed. [2015, Ross H. Spencer, The Fedorovich File, Diversion Books, →ISBN, page 211:]
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The boat knifed through the water.