EGAVE

knead

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  2. verb To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  3. verb Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  4. verb To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
  5. noun The act of kneading something.
  6. verb simple past and past participle of knead

Similar words

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Often followed by

the it until for dough and in lightly well

Word family

kneadable kneaded kneader kneaders kneading kneads

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