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nɛlknell

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 4 votes

  1. knellverb

    the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something

  2. knellverb

    ring as in announcing death

    Synonyms:
    ring

  3. ring, knellverb

    make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification

    "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"

    Synonyms:
    telephone, band, border, environ, peal, echo, phone, reverberate, skirt, resound, call up, surround, call, ring

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  1. List of paraphrases for "knell":

    funeral

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How to use knell in a sentence?

  1. Ellis Taylor:

    Emirates switching all of its order would certainly be the death knell for the A380.

  2. Steve Deace:

    I don’t think being left out of the debate is a death knell.

  3. Joe Biden:

    What we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy, it's not just Donald Trump.

  4. Theodore Roosevelt:

    The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

  5. James Gagliano:

    I have never been exposed to someone as prepared, as fair, as impartial, as unbiased and as precise in his language as John Gleeson, john Gotti could spell a death knell for a case just in three or four words.


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