Synonyms for knife
naɪf; naɪvzknife

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. knifenoun

   edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

   Synonyms:
   tongue

2. knifenoun

   a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point

   Synonyms:
   tongue

3. tongue, knifeverb

   any long thin projection that is transient

   "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"

   Synonyms:
   tongue, natural language, glossa, lingua, spit, clapper

4. knife, stabverb

   use a knife on

   "The victim was knifed to death"

   Synonyms:
   prod, dig, stab, poke, jab

Matched Categories

1. • Edge Tool
   • Injure
   • Weapon

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. knifenoun

   Synonyms:
   dagger, stiletto, dirk, poniard, bowie-knife, misericorde, anlace, yataghan, machete, bolo, handjar, skean, creese, barong, sword, billhook, saber, scalpel, lancet, bistoury, jackknife, pen-knife, pocket-knife

   Associated words:
   cutler, cutlery, sheath, sheathe, unsheathe, scabbard, cultrivorous, cultrate, cultriform, tang, scale, spring, blade, kick, spatula

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "knife":

   knives, blade, dagger, shiv, messer, scalpel, cutter, stab, razor, dao

NicknamesRate these nicknames:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of known nicknames for "Knife":

   Duncan McCoshan

Suggested Resources

1. knife

   Song lyrics by knife -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by knife on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce knife?

How to say knife in sign language?

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

1. [["1524","3"],["1563","4"],["1564","1"],["1568","1"],["1579","2"],["1581","1"],["1588","2"],["1589","3"],["1590","14"],["1592","9"],["1595","1"],["1598","1"],["1603","2"],["1605","5"],["1620","2"],["1621","19"],["1623","2"],["1624","4"],["1629","1"],["1631","2"],["1634","3"],["1637","4"],["1638","4"],["1640","2"],["1643","3"],["1644","1"],["1645","4"],["1648","1"],["1651","1"],["1653","18"],["1656","1"],["1657","3"],["1658","13"],["1659","2"],["1661","1"],["1662","2"],["1663","1"],["1664","2"],["1667","6"],["1668","1"],["1669","6"],["1671","1"],["1672","1"],["1674","6"],["1675","2"],["1676","2"],["1677","8"],["1678","7"],["1679","1"],["1680","1"],["1681","8"],["1682","2"],["1683","57"],["1684","11"],["1685","21"],["1686","1"],["1687","1"],["1688","5"],["1689","2"],["1691","1"],["1693","11"],["1694","1"],["1696","1"],["1698","3"],["1699","1"],["1700","2"],["1701","2"],["1702","4"],["1703","34"],["1704","1"],["1705","3"],["1706","3"],["1708","6"],["1709","9"],["1710","1"],["1711","4"],["1712","3"],["1713","4"],["1714","6"],["1715","4"],["1716","7"],["1717","6"],["1718","16"],["1719","19"],["1720","6"],["1721","6"],["1722","5"],["1723","97"],["1724","10"],["1725","44"],["1726","17"],["1727","13"],["1728","13"],["1729","24"],["1730","11"],["1731","31"],["1732","5"],["1733","7"],["1734","2"],["1735","2"],["1736","7"],["1737","22"],["1738","75"],["1739","10"],["1740","9"],["1741","6"],["1742","34"],["1743","39"],["1744","51"],["1745","75"],["1746","53"],["1747","26"],["1748","56"],["1749","28"],["1750","79"],["1751","117"],["1752","31"],["1753","65"],["1754","131"],["1755","231"],["1756","60"],["1757","83"],["1758","98"],["1759","111"],["1760","109"],["1761","69"],["1762","30"],["1763","66"],["1764","123"],["1765","101"],["1766","255"],["1767","284"],["1768","307"],["1769","84"],["1770","245"],["1771","158"],["1772","154"],["1773","303"],["1774","118"],["1775","150"],["1776","199"],["1777","156"],["1778","301"],["1779","221"],["1780","219"],["1781","140"],["1782","296"],["1783","183"],["1784","493"],["1785","435"],["1786","311"],["1787","295"],["1788","422"],["1789","212"],["1790","391"],["1791","513"],["1792","258"],["1793","344"],["1794","320"],["1795","449"],["1796","972"],["1797","365"],["1798","427"],["1799","535"],["1800","736"],["1801","1456"],["1802","842"],["1803","1066"],["1804","1187"],["1805","1506"],["1806","1157"],["1807","1468"],["1808","1295"],["1809","1341"],["1810","1378"],["1811","1619"],["1812","1439"],["1813","1902"],["1814","2145"],["1815","1849"],["1816","1865"],["1817","1800"],["1818","2031"],["1819","2169"],["1820","2729"],["1821","1846"],["1822","3085"],["1823","2682"],["1824","4127"],["1825","4482"],["1826","3232"],["1827","3135"],["1828","2886"],["1829","3125"],["1830","3564"],["1831","4475"],["1832","3955"],["1833","3732"],["1834","3499"],["1835","4967"],["1836","4463"],["1837","4378"],["1838","5754"],["1839","5723"],["1840","5194"],["1841","5184"],["1842","4528"],["1843","6354"],["1844","5665"],["1845","6582"],["1846","6835"],["1847","5888"],["1848","7479"],["1849","7429"],["1850","7028"],["1851","8243"],["1852","10430"],["1853","10170"],["1854","10114"],["1855","10882"],["1856","14572"],["1857","11337"],["1858","8219"],["1859","10209"],["1860","11997"],["1861","9009"],["1862","6945"],["1863","8962"],["1864","9051"],["1865","8978"],["1866","8979"],["1867","8919"],["1868","10621"],["1869","10942"],["1870","11526"],["1871","11288"],["1872","10862"],["1873","12329"],["1874","11954"],["1875","12437"],["1876","13537"],["1877","10602"],["1878","12374"],["1879","13344"],["1880","15338"],["1881","16457"],["1882","16895"],["1883","18194"],["1884","16814"],["1885","18697"],["1886","12474"],["1887","17768"],["1888","14481"],["1889","15997"],["1890","14655"],["1891","15806"],["1892","18715"],["1893","18636"],["1894","17617"],["1895","19511"],["1896","22178"],["1897","21694"],["1898","24487"],["1899","24711"],["1900","27781"],["1901","26577"],["1902","27233"],["1903","27218"],["1904","27456"],["1905","24912"],["1906","27357"],["1907","26364"],["1908","29077"],["1909","25051"],["1910","28279"],["1911","28435"],["1912","28647"],["1913","27715"],["1914","28306"],["1915","23720"],["1916","22275"],["1917","23091"],["1918","20212"],["1919","19433"],["1920","26158"],["1921","22925"],["1922","25514"],["1923","22664"],["1924","20137"],["1925","21121"],["1926","18545"],["1927","21153"],["1928","20833"],["1929","21888"],["1930","22552"],["1931","21184"],["1932","17901"],["1933","17209"],["1934","17454"],["1935","20830"],["1936","21764"],["1937","21659"],["1938","20768"],["1939","20044"],["1940","21015"],["1941","18052"],["1942","17466"],["1943","17514"],["1944","15250"],["1945","14671"],["1946","20331"],["1947","24992"],["1948","24736"],["1949","26343"],["1950","26468"],["1951","22400"],["1952","24200"],["1953","25252"],["1954","25077"],["1955","27445"],["1956","25342"],["1957","27912"],["1958","26524"],["1959","28294"],["1960","32877"],["1961","34238"],["1962","35185"],["1963","37746"],["1964","39180"],["1965","41158"],["1966","41134"],["1967","45551"],["1968","47598"],["1969","48260"],["1970","52000"],["1971","49276"],["1972","52138"],["1973","50114"],["1974","52061"],["1975","52772"],["1976","57453"],["1977","56761"],["1978","58918"],["1979","59588"],["1980","66482"],["1981","64521"],["1982","66423"],["1983","69597"],["1984","74790"],["1985","76942"],["1986","80718"],["1987","84239"],["1988","86804"],["1989","93720"],["1990","105628"],["1991","102893"],["1992","113072"],["1993","114772"],["1994","119359"],["1995","126167"],["1996","129098"],["1997","131397"],["1998","135855"],["1999","150073"],["2000","175589"],["2001","179080"],["2002","197822"],["2003","225468"],["2004","252015"],["2005","243081"],["2006","253129"],["2007","288950"],["2008","401427"]]

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use knife in a sentence?

1. Larry McMichael:

   But when you not in that right environment, when you not in that right community, when your mother and father hate people just as much as you do, that grow in you, how it come out? A lot of times in that knife or that gun.

2. Diman Bayeez:

   I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty.

3. France Adel Kermiche:

   You get a knife, go to a church, spread carnage, boom. You cut off two or three heads and you're done.

4. Andrew Alperstein:

   Baltimore City has a law that says it's not only illegal to have a switchblade, but it's also illegal to have a spring-action knife.

5. Mike Connors:

   I have a knife, a bomb and a hostage. Bring it on. i was kind of in shock.