kneel

IPA(Pronunciation)

/niːl/

Verb

intransitive of a bus or other vehicle transitive archaic reflexive

(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

Japanese Meaning

ひざまずく。膝をついて、身体を低くする動作を行う。 / 片膝でも同様に、膝を曲げて身を低くすること。

What is this buttons?

When the injured hiker could no longer stand, he had to kneel beside the trail.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

負傷したハイカーはもう立てなくなったとき、小道のそばに膝をつかなければならなかった。

Details

Sense（1）

(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

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