to kneel
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1.4
- verb
- /nɪl/
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- I kneel before you not as a prince, but as a man in love.
- kneel in prayer
- kneel to kiss
- a kneeling man
And then Aaron gets up and kneels down formally on both knees.
- And then Aaron gets up and kneels down formally on both knees.
- There's hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- I, I don't agree with like kneeling for the anthem.
- We are a Long live people who now kneel before short term interests.
- You can't kneel before this God or that God.
- And it is the thing before which I kneel, right?
- Akamian Kelhus said, The next time you come before me, you will kneel, Drusus Akamian.
- We ran up the kitchen steps onto the porch and Katie knelt down in the dark and held me.
- And she asked me to come back and I went and knelt by the bed.
- And by the way, this is coming from a person who wouldn't kneel.
- And he looks at them and then in a blink of an eye, he kneels down in front of them.
Examples
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Before entering the church, many people kneel to pray quietly.
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As they did so, he ordered each one to kneel on the ground in rows, close together.
Academic text (1991) -
Allow me to kneel down and get it for you.
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Final challenge, kneel and get back up.
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Finally, we had our turn to enter the church and kneel before the icon.
Academic text (2000) -
For the second verse, the crowd was asked to "kneel before God" while singing it, and many did.
Academic text (1997) -
No man fears to kneel before the god he trusts.
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And she asked me to come back and I went and knelt by the bed.
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Visitors who came to kneel and pray would have approached the epitaph from the right.
Academic text (1993) -
I looked over and she had knelt down and was picking a bouquet of wildflowers.
Synonyms
102
1.8
To crouch or kneel down to a lower position
30
3.7
Lower your head or body to show respect, often as a sign that you obey someone
5
9.9
To kneel on one or both knees to show respect, often in a church
1
8.4
To show loyalty and obey a powerful person
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3.9
Bend your upper body forward from the waist to show respect
To kneel on one knee in prayer or to show thanks
Antonyms
How Respectful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kneel comes from an old word for the body part knee. So to kneel is literally to 'go down on your knees', which is why people kneel to show respect, pray, or show submission.