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knuckle
verb as in bow
Strong match
Weak matches
verb as in defer
verb as in submit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in succumb
Strongest matches
verb as in surrender
Strongest matches
verb as in yield
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Use your tape and measure the width of your hand at your knuckles.
He also did not turn himself into law enforcement, she said, and instead was found at his sister’s home in Macon, 75 miles from home, with brass knuckles, multiple guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
As a variant, keep your eyes looking forward and glide your knuckles down toward your shoulder in a straight line.
Glide your knuckles down slowly, applying constant pressure.
I’ve knocked on wood so many times since March that my knuckles are covered in callouses.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, my third book, changed my life and put me on bare-knuckle terms with my abilities.
If you think of yourself as more than a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, you can stand up and be respectful.
How could it be that this word, and not “what” or “why,” has caused a bare-knuckle brawl at such a stratospheric social level?
I like the term knuckle dragger, but I don't want to cast any undeserved slurs at Neanderthals.
In Silicon Valley it's a war for talent—an all-out knuckle-drag war.
He had their undivided attention in a moment, without the rapping of Miss Carringtons hard knuckle on the table top.
Bobby said that that knuckle of Gee Gees middle finger had been abnormally developed by continued bringing the class to order.
By chance he heard us warned for guard, and at once went to his tent and returned with a ham knuckle.
Three were used at a time, thrown from the fritillus, as were the knuckle-bones (Fig. 132), but the sides counted that came up.
If this rounding is carried to excess we get the Knuckle thread shown at (d).
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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