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Meaning of knive | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
naɪv

Definitions

Rare form of knife.

form-of, rare

Examples

“all small weak Shoots should be cut close to the main Stems; and (generally speaking) nipping with your Nails, is a better Way than kniving of them.”
“Our brains always ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us.”
“The Greeks were always fighting, drunk, and kniving each other.”
“I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.”
“Great sheets of rain began kniving horizontally like slashing shards.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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