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knifed
[nahyf] 
| Main Entry: |
knife
[nahyf]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab with pointed tool |
| Synonyms: | brand, carve, chop down, clip, cut, hurt, impale, jag, kill, lacerate, lance, open up, pierce, shank, shiv, slash, slice, spit, stick, thrust, wound |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste* |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
| Antonyms: | guard, preserve, protect, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penetrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce; get through physically |
| Synonyms: | access, barge in, bayonet, blow in, bore, break in, breeze in, bust in, charge, come, crack, diffuse, drill, drive, eat through, encroach, enter, filter in, force, get in, go through, gore, impale, infiltrate, ingress, insert, insinuate, introduce, invade, jab, knife, make a hole, make an entrance, pass through, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, pop in, prick, probe, puncture, ream, run into, saturate, seep, sink into, spear, stab, stick into, suffuse, thrust, trespass |
| Antonyms: | exit, take out, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | puncture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | poke hole in |
| Synonyms: | bore, cut, cut through, deflate, drill, go down, go flat, knife, lacerate, lance, nick, open, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, riddle, rupture |
| Antonyms: | close, sew |
| Main Entry: | slit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut open |
| Synonyms: | gash, incise, knife, lance, pierce, rip, sever, slash, slice, slot, split open, tear |
| Antonyms: | close, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | stab |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | puncture, pierce with sharp, pointed object |
| Synonyms: | bayonet, brand, carve, chop, cleave, clip, cut, drive, gore, hit, hurt, injure, jab, jag, knife, open up, penetrate, pierce, plow, plunge, prick, prong, punch, ram, run through, saber, shank, sink, slice, spear, stick, thrust, transfix, wound |
| Main Entry: | bayonet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab |
| Synonyms: | knife, pierce |
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