Knead
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English
Verb
Knead (third-person singular simple present Kneads, present participle Kneading, simple past and past participle Kneaded)
- (transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
- 2001, Özcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay, The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook
- Knead the dough by pressing down on it with the heels of both your palms and pushing it forward to stretch it, then pulling it back toward you...
- 2001, Özcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay, The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook
- (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
- (intransitive, of cats) To make a kneading motion with the paws, a sign of contentment.
- 1991, Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts
- Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.
- 1991, Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts
Adverbs for Knead
savagely; industriously; vigorously; laboriously; mechanically; experimentally; patiently; wholesomely; furiously.
Thesaurus
admix, alloy, amalgamate, bemingle, blend, block out, caress, carve, cast, chisel, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, create, cushion, cut, ease, efform, emulsify, fashion, feel up, figure, fix, fluff, fondle, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, frictionize, fuse, gentle, hash, hew, homogenize, immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, jumble, knock out, laxate, lay out, lick into shape, limber, limber up, loosen, mash, massage, mellow, merge, milden, mingle, mingle-mangle, mint, mix, mix up, model, mold, mollify, nose, nuzzle, pet, plump, pulp, relax, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rub, rub against, rub down, rub noses, scramble, sculpt, sculpture, set, shake up, shape, shuffle, smash, soften, soften up, squash, stamp, stir up, stroke, subdue, supple, syncretize, tailor, tenderize, thermoform, throw together, tone down, toss together, tune down, work
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Etymology
Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-Germanic *knedanan, *knudanan (cf. Dutch kneden, German kneten, Swedish knåda), from Proto-Indo-European *gnegh 'to knead' (cf. Lithuanian gniùsti 'to press, push', Old Church Slavonic gnesti 'to press').
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