Knead vs Kneed - What's the difference?
knead | kneed |
(senseid)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
(figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
* Shakespeare
(of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
* 1991 , Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts
(in combination) Having some specific type of knee or knees.
(knee)
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As verbs the difference between knead and kneed
is that knead is (to work and press into a mass) 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 while kneed is past tense of knee.As an adjective kneed is
having some specific type of knee or knees.knead
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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...
- I will knead him: I'll make him supple.
- Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.