knife

nom

1. 1

   A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

   He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.

   Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.

2. 2

   A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.

3. 3

   Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

verbe

1. 1

   To cut with a knife.

2. 2

   To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.

   She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.

   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.

   The plane has been hijacked. They've already knifed a guy.

   Naw, they found him in the pissery of some gin mill near the Mohawk West terminal—he'd been knifed.

3. 3

   To cut through as if with a knife.

   The boat knifed through the water.

4. 4

   To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.

5. 5

   To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.

Formes

pluriel

knives

passé

knifed

participe passé

knifed

participe présent

knifing

3ᵉ personne du singulier

knifes