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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. Steve Deace:

    His entire campaign is based on him being a blunt instrument he can get back at Washington with. If he dulls those edges, that would be the death knell for him. it will be interesting to see how Scott Walker performs in this environment. I think we have to see if this [debate] diminishes his stature or he is able to craft an everyman persona who is a nice contrast to the bigger personalities.

  2. 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.

  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. Joe Biden:

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

  5. Steve Deace:

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


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