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knee `noun` [ niː ]

• the joint between the thigh and the lower leg in humans.

• an angled piece of wood or metal frame used to connect and support the beams and timbers of a wooden ship.

• an abrupt obtuse or approximately right-angled bend in a graph between parts where the slope varies smoothly.

knee `verb`

• hit (someone) with one's knee.

• "she kneed him in the groin"

Origin: Old English cnēow, cnēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch knie and German Knie, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin genu and Greek gonu .

at one's mother's knee

• at an early age.

bend the knee

• submit.
"a country no longer willing to bend its knee to foreign powers"

bring someone to their knees

• reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission.
"the country was brought to its knees by a new strike"

fall to one's knees

• assume a kneeling position.

on bended knee

• kneeling, especially when pleading or showing great respect.
"did your guy propose on bended knee?"

on one's knees

• in a kneeling position.

weak at the knees

• overcome by a strong feeling, typically desire.

knee noun [ niː ]

knee verb