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knell

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Source Word

knell

IPA(Pronunciation)

/nɛl/

Verb

intransitive transitive

Japanese Meaning

（鐘を）響かせる、特に葬式などでゆっくりと鳴らすこと。 / （鐘を）鳴らして（特に死を）知らせること、またはその行為を表す。

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As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the ancient bell began to knell slowly across the misty churchyard.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

棺が地中に下ろされると、古びた鐘が霧のかかった教会の庭に向かってゆっくりと鳴り響き始めた。

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Sense（1）

(intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee,

And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing,

Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.

Let thy friends be as the dead in doom,

And build to them a final tomb;

Let the starred shade that nightly falls

Still celebrate their funerals,

And the bell of beetle and of bee

Knell their melodious memory.

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

knells

（ present singular third-person ）

knelling

（ participle present ）

knelled

（ participle past ）

knelled

（ past ）

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