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kneel

verb as in get down on one's knees

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The devil offers Jesus power over the whole world, and all he has to do is kneel before Satan and submit to his authority.

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For the role, the actor had to learn traditional Japanese, how to walk in a kimono, how to kneel properly and even how to fight.

In other scenes, militants kneel to pray in front of at least four of the female soldiers, who are handcuffed and seated on the ground.

In Viking Age Lithuania, the exhausted animals were forced to kneel on subterranean ramps and buried faced down as though galloping into the earth.

Either way, I wasn’t going to kneel in front of a shabby kiln, if that’s what they were thinking.

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

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