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Word entry · 6 letters

knifed

Best crossword clue

"Cut with a blade"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /naɪft/Sorted defiknStarts with KEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Cut, struck, or moved sharply like a knife.

Word origin

From knife + -ed.

Used in a sentence

  • The police were on the pavement outside; the knifed man lay holding his side with blood through his fingers spreading up his cheap shirt like litmus paper turning red.
  • It is despicable what the sharp-knifed general and his army have done to the honorable Commander Francisco Caso y Luengo, one of our most revered Spanish military figures.
  • A short-knifed wheat header, such as is used in harvesting wheat and barley in California, if especially strongly built, has been suggested as a practicable contrivance.

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