knifed

English

Alternative forms

• knived

Etymology

From knife +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪft/
• Rhymes: -aɪft

Adjective

knifed (not comparable)

1. Having been cut or stabbed with a knife.
   • 1911, Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and of Plant-Diseases, volume 2, numbers 5-12, The Institute, page 2201:

     These reports show no difference, or, at all events, no significant difference, between the lambs that were seared and those which were knifed, at any of the weighings. Any difference is in favour of the knifed lambs, but it would be a mistake to attach much importance to this result particularly since it was obtained in one season only.

   • 1973, John Hale, The Fort, Quartet Books Limited, →ISBN, page 106:

     The police were on the pavement outside; the knifed man lay holding his side with blood through his fingers spreading up his cheap shirt like litmus paper turning red.

   • 2021, Tracey Drew, Knitted and Knifed: (A Humorous & Heart-warming Cozy Mystery), Icon Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 38:

     “Is it drugs?” I prompted when he frowned but remained silent. “We'll let the experts decide that, shall we?” he said calmly. As if it were an everyday occurrence to find a baggie of pills in a ransacked storeroom with a knifed owner next door.

2. (chiefly in combination) Wearing or carrying (a specified type of) knife (utensil or tool).
   • 1874 October, “’Tite Poulette”, in J[osiah] G[ilbert] Holland, editor, Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume VIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., page 675, column 2:

     Ha! more times than a few had Monsieur John knocked down some long-haired and long-knifed rowdy, and kicked the breath out of him for looking saucily at her; but that was like him, he was so brave and kind;—and he is gone!

   • 1968, Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz, “A World Comes of Age”, in The Pageant of the New World, Berkeley, Calif.: Diablo Press, →LCCN, page 287:

     Soon, like the backhand stroke / Of a knifed assassin skulking in the brush, / New agonies awoke, / And smote as though all nature in a rush / Of anger had combined to castigate / Man’s follies with a self-inflicted fate.

   • 2002, Annie Champa, Three Notches of Destiny, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 47:

     It is despicable what the sharp-knifed general and his army have done to the honorable Commander Francisco Caso y Luengo, one of our most revered Spanish military figures.

3. (in combination) Having a knife (blade-like part) of the specified type.
   • 1921 December 16, F[rederick] G[eorge] Krauss, The Pigeon Pea (Cajanus indicus): Its Culture and Utilization in Hawaii (Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station; Bulletin No. 46), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 10:

     A short-knifed wheat header, such as is used in harvesting wheat and barley in California, if especially strongly built, has been suggested as a practicable contrivance.

   • 2014, Regan Walker, Wind Raven (The Agents of the Crown Trilogy; 3)‎^[1], [United States]: Boroughs Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     Most of the Raven’s crew would be fighting with their long-knifed cutlasses, the sailors’ weapon of choice.

   • 2015, Frank Granada, Lorraine Grubbs, Beyond the Executive Comfort Zone: Outrageous Tactics to Ignite Individual Performance, Irving, Tex.: Inspire On Purpose Publishing, →ISBN, page 98:

     Back in the Civil War, soldiers would have used single shot muzzle-loading long rifles with long-knifed bayonets attached to the barrels.

Verb

knifed

1. simple past and past participle of knife

Anagrams

• finked