{
    "term": "knee",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/bo/body.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the joint between the top and bottom parts of the leg where it bends in the middle",
            "sensetop": "on your knees",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **knee injury**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had **knee surgery** three years ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Bend your knees** until you feel your thigh muscles working."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I grazed my knee when I fell."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **went down on one knee** and asked her to marry him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor.",
                    "contextForm": "on your knees"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone was down **on (their) hands and knees** *(= crawling* on the floor) looking for the ring."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **fell to his knees** and begged for mercy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My knees were knocking *(= I was frightened)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He dropped to one knee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She hugged her knees to keep warm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He patted my knee reassuringly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He slapped his knee as he rocked with laughter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's snapped a ligament in her knee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I rested my chin on my drawn-up knees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Suddenly her knees buckled and she fell to the floor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The blow knocked me to my knees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His leg was missing below the knee."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Body"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["left", "right", "bony"],
                "verb + knee": ["bend", "flex", "straighten"],
                "knee + verb": ["buckle", "give way", "weaken"],
                "knee + noun": ["injury", "problem", "sprain"],
                "preposition": [
                    "above the knee",
                    "across your knees",
                    "at somebody’s knee"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "bring something to its knees",
                    "on your hands and knees",
                    "on bended knee"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the part of a piece of clothing that covers the knee",
            "sensetop": "at the knee",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I brushed the dust from the knees of my trousers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These jeans are torn at the knee.",
                    "contextForm": "at the knee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a knee patch"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the top surface of the upper part of the legs when you are sitting down",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come and sit on Daddy's knee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had a blanket draped across her knees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sat on his mother's knee while she read him a story."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "lap",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["left", "right", "bony"],
                "verb + knee": ["bend", "flex", "straighten"],
                "knee + verb": ["buckle", "give way", "weaken"],
                "knee + noun": ["injury", "problem", "sprain"],
                "preposition": [
                    "above the knee",
                    "across your knees",
                    "at somebody’s knee"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "bring something to its knees",
                    "on your hands and knees",
                    "on bended knee"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "when you were very young",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I learnt these songs at my mother's knee."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an excellent person or thing",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She thinks she's the bee's knees *(= she has a very high opinion of herself)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to defeat somebody, especially in a war",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to badly affect an organization, etc. so that it can no longer function",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The strikes brought the industry to its knees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fuel shortage brought the country to its knees within weeks."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you ask for something on bended knee(s), you ask for it in a very anxious and/or humble way (= showing you think you are less important than the person you are asking)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I’d go down on bended knee if I thought she’d change her mind."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to punish somebody by making them lie on top of your knee and hitting their bottom",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to kneel on one knee in public in order to protest about the unfair treatment of black people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Officers at the rally were seen taking a knee in solidarity with the demonstrators."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "hardly able to stand because of emotion, fear, illness, etc.",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His sudden smile made her go weak at the knees."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/niː/",
                "audio": "kn/knee/knee__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/niː/",
                "audio": "kn/knee/knee__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English cnēow, cnēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch knie and German Knie, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin genu and Greek gonu."
}