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knelt
verb as in get down on one's knees
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Mr Hilal knelt over his daughter's body, covered in an embroidered blanket, and wept.
His death on May 25, 2020, was captured on a bystander’s livestream, which showed him writhing and pleading for air as a white officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9½ minutes.
Solicitor Aamer Anwar claimed he was also threatened by a police officer, thrown to the ground and had his neck knelt upon.
Some knelt and kissed the ground while many wrapped themselves in yellow-blue flags and hugged one another, breaking into tears.
A devotee knelt and gently touched his head on the dome of the Boudhanath Stupa, an iconic Buddhist monument in Kathmandu, as a mark of reverence on Thursday, which marks the birth of Buddha.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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