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know
  1. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
  2. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
  3. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
  4. (transitive) To experience.
  5. (transitive) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
  6. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
  7. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
  8. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
  9. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
  10. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
  11. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “We know from experience that hard work typically brings success.”
      “I know a thing or two about Tibetan music, and that is what this reminds me of.”
      “If you were to know hardship, you would appreciate every penny you earn.”
knowledge
  1. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th-17th c.]
knowleche
  1. Obsolete form of acknowledge.
kno
  1. (nonstandard) Informal spelling of know.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Aside from the observation that, as any fule kno, rockets launch satellites, but themselves fall to earth, one wonders why this was ever considered to be helpful.”
knowing
known
knows
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of know
  2. (nonstandard) All persons, singular and plural, present form of know.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The single mum-of-three never knows if she will wake up to yet more damage and destruction on her doorstep.”
      “He walked back his comments almost immediately. Who knows where he really stands on the issue?”
      “There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of.”
knoweth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of know
  2. Examples:
    1. “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
      “The heart knoweth its own sorrows, and a stranger intermeddleth not therewith.”
      “Hast been a chirurgeon, they do say, and knoweth simples as I the fen-lands.”
knowleched
  1. simple past tense and past participle of knowleche
knowledged
  1. simple past tense and past participle of knowledge
kneweth
  1. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic, hypercorrect) alternative third person singular past tense form of know
knowst
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of know
  2. Examples:
    1. Knowst not that it sickens me to see a mountain cat killed, save in full chase.”
knowest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of know
  2. Examples:
    1. “Seest thou the flyboat that but late came to join our fleet, and knowest thou who it is upon it that twangs the viol every day?”
      “Thou knowest well the shifts I have been put to, to pass for a man of a hundred pounds a year, and avoid the sumptuary law.”
      “Thou, of the race of Canute, knowest how popular was the reign of that King.”
knewest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of know
  2. Examples:
    1. “Thou wouldst wonder if thou knewest one half of my providences.”
knowed
  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of know
  2. Examples:
    1. “I knowed the curmudgeon's voice, and I expect he knowed my hand, for he has felt it before.”
      “He 'scribed the man that had conjured Willie but everybody knowed John had done it 'fore the fortune teller told us.”
      “Both of us knowed what that meant, without having to explain to one another.”
knowledging
  1. present participle of knowledge
knew
  1. simple past tense of know
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She looked at me with piercing eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.”
      “For many years his staff has been the ablest on Capitol Hill, but most of the public never knew their names.”
      “Investigators are trying to establish if anyone knew about these problems before the accident.”
knowen
  1. (archaic) past participle of know
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ye knowen wel that I am poure and olde, kithe your almesse upon me poure wretche.”
      “And syn we knowen wel at many a man ha sout e fruit of blisfulnesse nat only wi suffryng of dee.”
      “Of whiche ing al e ordinaunce and e soe for as moche 380 as folk at ben to comen aftir oure dayes schollen knowen it.”
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