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knife

   [nahyf] noun, plural knives  [nahyvz] , verb, knifed, knif·ing.
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.
verb (used with object)
4.
to apply a knife to; cut, stab, etc., with a knife.
5.
to attempt to defeat or undermine in a secret or underhanded way.

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verb (used without object)
6.
to move or cleave through something with or as if with a knife: The ship knifed through the heavy seas.
Idiom
7.
under the knife, in surgery; undergoing a medical operation: The patient was under the knife for four hours.
Origin:
before 1100; Middle English knif, Old English cnīf; cognate with Dutch knijf, German Kneif, Old Norse knīfr

Related forms
knife·like, adjective
knif·er, noun
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knife (naɪf)
 
—n , pl knives
1.  a cutting instrument consisting of a sharp-edged often pointed blade of metal fitted into a handle or onto a machine
2.  a similar instrument used as a weapon
3.  have one's knife in someone to have a grudge against or victimize someone
4.  twist the knife to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
5.  (Brit) the knives are out for someone people are determined to harm or put a stop to someone: the knives are out for Stevens
6.  under the knife undergoing a surgical operation
 
—vb
7.  to cut, stab, or kill with a knife
8.  to betray, injure, or depose in an underhand way
 
[Old English cnīf; related to Old Norse knīfr, Middle Low German knīf]
 
'knifelike
 
—adj
 
'knifer
 
—n

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knife
late O.E. cnif, from O.N. knifr, from P.Gmc. *knibaz (cf. M.L.G. knif, M.Du. cnijf, Ger. kneip), of uncertain origin. The verb is first attested 1865, from the noun. Fr. canif "penknife" (1441) is borrowed from M.E. or O.N.
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