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knife a cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade fastened to a handle The first known use: before the 12th century |
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5 Letters, 1 Syllable |
knife |
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3 Phonemes |
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onset, rime |
kn ife |
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Morpheme |
knife |
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Sentence Examples Each dinner guest gets two forks, a knife, and a spoon. He pulled a knife on me and threatened to stab me with it. He died after being knifed in the chest. |
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Related Words Sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Collocations The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
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Neighborhood
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