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View definitions for at knifepoint

at knifepoint

adverb as in under the gun

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A woman assaulted at knifepoint in a sexually motivated attack managed to fight off her attacker with a torch, police have said.

From BBC

Among his convictions: abducting a woman in her car at knifepoint in 1976, for which he served five years, and kidnapping a woman at gunpoint from her home in 1984, for which he served eight.

Sir Ben Ainslie has been robbed of his Rolex watch at knifepoint in Barcelona, ahead of qualification races for the America's Cup, Spanish media have reported.

From BBC

A Dundee woman who was forced at knifepoint to smoke crack by criminals who turned her home into a drug den has said she was convinced she would be killed.

From BBC

He wore a mask and sexually assaulted the woman at knifepoint.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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