Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to knell
Participle: knelled
Gerund: knelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | knell |
| you | knell |
| he;she;it | knells |
| we | knell |
| you | knell |
| they | knell |
Perfect
| I | have knelled |
| you | have knelled |
| he;she;it | has knelled |
| we | have knelled |
| you | have knelled |
| they | have knelled |
Past
| I | knelled |
| you | knelled |
| he;she;it | knelled |
| we | knelled |
| you | knelled |
| they | knelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had knelled |
| you | had knelled |
| he;she;it | had knelled |
| we | had knelled |
| you | had knelled |
| they | had knelled |
Future
| I | will knell |
| you | will knell |
| he;she;it | will knell |
| we | will knell |
| you | will knell |
| they | will knell |
Future Perfect
| I | will have knelled |
| you | will have knelled |
| he;she;it | will have knelled |
| we | will have knelled |
| you | will have knelled |
| they | will have knelled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | knell |
| you | knell |
| he;she;it | knell |
| we | knell |
| you | knell |
| they | knell |
Perfect
| I | have knelled |
| you | have knelled |
| he;she;it | have knelled |
| we | have knelled |
| you | have knelled |
| they | have knelled |
Imperfect
| I | knelled |
| you | knelled |
| he;she;it | knelled |
| we | knelled |
| you | knelled |
| they | knelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had knelled |
| you | had knelled |
| he;she;it | had knelled |
| we | had knelled |
| you | had knelled |
| they | had knelled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would knell |
| you | would knell |
| he;she;it | would knell |
| we | would knell |
| you | would knell |
| they | would knell |
Perfect
| I | would have knelled |
| you | would have knelled |
| he;she;it | would have knelled |
| we | would have knelled |
| you | would have knelled |
| they | would have knelled |
Imperative
| you | knell |
| we | Let's knell |
| you | knell |
Verbs conjugated like 'knell'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'knell'
kneel,
knoll,
kvell,
snell,
aneal,
anele,
bell,
cell,
dwell,
fell,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
cnyll "sound made by a bell when struck or rung slowly," of imitative origin. Cf. M.H.G.
erknellen "to resound," O.E.
cnyllan. The Welsh
cnull "death-bell" appears to be a borrowing from Eng. For vowel evolution, see bury.
2. From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”). See: Middle English '
knyllen', Old English '
cnyllan', Proto-Germanic '
*knuzlijaną'.
Verbs referencing "knell"
German, old spelling
knüllen.
Sample Sentences
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I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee,
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And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing,
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Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […] [1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Spanish Curate, act V, scene 2:]
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“[…] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!” [1816, Walter Scott, “Chapter 7”, in The Black Dwarf:]
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The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling,
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The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling
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For the year [1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems, London: John & Henry L. Hunt, Autumn: A Dirge, page 166:]
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Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
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Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word—ALONE! [1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The New Timon. A Poetical Romance, 4th edition, London: Henry Colburn, Part II, page 86:]
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Let thy friends be as the dead in doom,
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And build to them a final tomb;
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Let the starred shade that nightly falls
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Still celebrate their funerals,
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And the bell of beetle and of bee
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Knell their melodious memory. [October 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Woodnotes, Number II”, in The Dial, volume 2, number 2, page 212:]
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The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills. [1909 [1895], Alfred Allinson, The Well of Saint Clare, London: John Lane, translation of original by Anatole France, Prologue:]
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His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh’s ears knelled his soul’s departure. [October 1931, Robert E. Howard, “The Gods of Bal-Sagoth”, in Weird Tales, volume 18, number 3, Chapter 3:]