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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of knife.

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Examples

  • For instance, the man Peasley might have omitted the word knifed; also the explanatory words, argument boat fare, and the word mate.

    Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley 1918

  • Each coin knifed into the soft cedar of the door, burying itself about halfway.

    Vigorish Randall Garrett 1957

  • He had "knifed" people before -- here and there a particular candidate whom it was desirable to undo.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • They squabbled amongst themselves over the dew-surfaces, and only the night before one of them was knifed because he so stole.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • The typhoon was astonishingly noisy now—the wind howled as the waves buffetted the base of the rig, and the relentless rain knifed into the steel exterior of the rig at seventy miles an hour.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Twelve years later, despite a life term without parole, Horton received a weekend furlough, during which he knifed, blinded, and gagged a man in Maryland, raped his fiancée, and stole their car.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • The typhoon was astonishingly noisy now—the wind howled as the waves buffetted the base of the rig, and the relentless rain knifed into the steel exterior of the rig at seventy miles an hour.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • The typhoon was astonishingly noisy now—the wind howled as the waves buffetted the base of the rig, and the relentless rain knifed into the steel exterior of the rig at seventy miles an hour.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Twelve years later, despite a life term without parole, Horton received a weekend furlough, during which he knifed, blinded, and gagged a man in Maryland, raped his fiancée, and stole their car.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • The typhoon was astonishingly noisy now—the wind howled as the waves buffetted the base of the rig, and the relentless rain knifed into the steel exterior of the rig at seventy miles an hour.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

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