# kneed

Pronunciation: US say "NEED" /niːd/; UK

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of knee. — simple past and past participle of knee
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of knee. Use it to talk about hitting or pushing something with your knee in the past.
   - _The wrestler kneed his rival in the side before the referee broke them apart._
   - _He had kneed the ball clear just before the striker arrived._

## Adjective

2. Having a knee or knees; in combination, having the type of knee specified by the preceding word.
   - Simple: Having a knee or knees. When joined to another word, having the kind of knee named.
   - _Elephants are kneed in a way that lets them bend their legs and lower themselves to the ground._
   - _The newborn foal was long-kneed and unsteady on the wet straw._
3. Having angular joints or bends that resemble a bent knee.
   - Simple: Having sharp bends in it, like the angle of a bent knee.
   - _Botanists noted the kneed stalk, which angled abruptly just above the lowest node._
   - _Some grasses are distinctly kneed, their stems bending like a flexed leg._

## Origin

Formed from "knee" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/kneed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).