Knee I Niː Top Noun Injury Surgery Years

• a knee injury
• i had knee surgery three years ago.
• bend your knees until you feel your thigh muscles working.
• i grazed my knee when i fell.

knee

1. the joint between the top and bottom parts of the leg where it bends in the middle
• a knee injury
• I had knee surgery three years ago.
• Bend your knees until you feel your thigh muscles working.
• I grazed my knee when I fell.
• He went down on one knee and asked her to marry him.
• She was on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor.
• Everyone was down on (their) on (their) hands and knees (= crawling on the floor) looking for the ring.
• He fell to his knees and begged for mercy.
• My knees were knocking (= I was frightened).

Extra Examples

• He dropped to one knee.
• He hugged his knees to keep warm.
• He patted her knee reassuringly.
• He slapped his knee as he rocked with laughter.
• He's snapped a ligament in his knee.
• I rested my chin on my drawn-up knees.
• Suddenly her knees buckled and she fell to the floor.
• The blow knocked him to his knees.
• His leg was missing below the knee.
2. the part of a piece of clothing that covers the knee
• I brushed the dust from the knees of my trousers.
• These jeans are torn at the knee.
• a knee patch
3. the top surface of the upper part of the legs when you are sitting down
• SYNONYM lap
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• Come and sit on Daddy's knee.

Extra Examples

• She had a blanket draped across her knees.
• She sat on her father's knee while he read her a story.
4. when you were very young
• I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.
5. an excellent person or thing
• She thinks she's the bee's knees (= she has a very high opinion of herself).
6. to defeat somebody, especially in a war
7. to badly affect an organization, etc. so that it can no longer function
• The strikes brought the industry to its knees.
• The fuel shortage brought the country to its knees within weeks.
8. if you ask for something on bended knee(s), you ask for it in a very anxious and/or humble way (= showing you think you are less important than the person you are asking)
• I’d go down on bended knee if I thought she’d change her mind.
9. to punish somebody by making them lie on top of your knee and hitting their bottom
10. hardly able to stand because of emotion, fear, illness, etc.
• His sudden smile made her go weak at the knees.

Word Origin

• Old English cnēow, cnēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch knie and German Knie, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin genu and Greek gonu.