"knive" meaning in English

See knive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /naɪv/ Forms: knives [present, singular, third-person], kniving [participle, present], knived [participle, past], knived [past]
Rhymes: -aɪv Etymology: Attested since at least 1733. Knife (verb), which is now 150 times more common, is first attested in the 1860s. Related to knife (“short blade”, noun); compare strife (noun), strive (verb). Head templates: {{en-verb}} knive (third-person singular simple present knives, present participle kniving, simple past and past participle knived)
  1. Rare form of knife. Tags: form-of, rare Form of: knife
    Sense id: en-knive-en-verb-EQLsVKhz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
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          "ref": "2009, Kathleen Mapes, Sweet Tyranny, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "The Greeks were always fighting, drunk, and kniving each other.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, James Lee Burke, The Convict And Other Stories, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, Steve Ruedlinger, Almost Paradise, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "Great sheets of rain began kniving horizontally like slashing shards.",
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          "ref": "1917/1918, Wilfred Owen, “Exposure”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
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          "ref": "2009, Kathleen Mapes, Sweet Tyranny, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "The Greeks were always fighting, drunk, and kniving each other.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, James Lee Burke, The Convict And Other Stories, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.",
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          "ref": "2014, Steve Ruedlinger, Almost Paradise, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "Great sheets of rain began kniving horizontally like slashing shards.",
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