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Knifed

Knife \Knife\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knifed; p. pr. & vb. n. Knifing.]

  1. (Hort.) To prune with the knife.

  2. To cut or stab with a knife. [Low]

  3. Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party). [Slang, U. S.]

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knifed

vb. (en-past of: knife)

Usage examples of "knifed".

The seconds ticked by, the Ulysses knifed her way through cold fog and icy sea.

If I could get to my bed without being chewed to pieces by dogs or knifed by one of Hewell's Chinese, I would think about things.

He surprised you in something, or he woke when you knifed or shot one of Major Halliwell's men, and you laid him out.

He can't remember what he was doing about the time that Carol Torney was knifed to death.

You said that Maya had gone crazy and knifed Carol Torney, because Carol was wise to the plane hiring.

Now, those eyes glittered at Batra, and the skin around Dalal’s mouth puckered into a scowl so the lines around her mouth knifed into her skin.

Now I’m not asking you for a blow-by-blow, but I’ve been mugged, my boyfriend’s gotten himself knifed, my best clothes have been trashed, my mouth hurts, and I’m likely to miss my connection to Betazed.

Other than getting himself knifed, he wasn’t sure exactly what he’d accomplished.

Halak gets knifed, but Batra manages to get the knife away from whomever’s got Halak and she stabs the Bolian, the one with the pulse gun.

Horrified, Halak watched as the blast caught the scout amidships and knifed through the hull, shredding it like tissue paper.

Why, when y'u said 'that horse y'u stole,' I felt as if y'u'd knifed me.

An' last--this here's what I come to tell you--Jean Isbel slipped up in the dark on Greaves an' knifed him.

An' Ted Meeker heerd it from Greaves, who didn't die till the next day after Jean Isbel knifed him.

When I get plugged or knifed by that half-breed I shore hope y'u'll be round to nurse me.

Without warning, he pushed off from the side and knifed underwater toward her.