Word Finder - knew

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To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.

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He knew something terrible was going to happen.

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To be aware of; to be cognizant of.

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Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.

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To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

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I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.

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To experience.

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Their relationship knew ups and downs.

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To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.

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I wouldn't know one from the other.

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To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.

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To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.

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His mother tongue is Italian, but he also knows French and English.

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To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know Biblically.’

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To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.

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He knows about 19th century politics.

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To be or become aware or cognizant.

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Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.

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To be acquainted (with another person).

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To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).

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Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?

He knew what she meant.

Alex knew very well what he wanted.

Of course, she knew Alex well enough now to know he didn't like people to hand out information about him.

He knew exactly what he wanted and I told him we would buy it for him.

I never knew there was so much.

I knew that it would not rain any more.

He already knew she was here, and it wasn't as though she could run and hide.

I told them all I knew about them.

She brought me my hat, and I knew I was going out into the warm sunshine.

No one knew what the future held, but if they faced everything together, surely they would grow together.

You knew she intended it for you.

I knew you'd be upset and there is nothing you can do... nothing I can do.

Nobody knew where he had gone, or how he had escaped.

I never knew any Madame Jacquot.

Boris knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve's name.

If Alex knew that, he gave no indication - and she had no intention of telling him.

They were a family who knew all they had was each other.

No, it's no one my family knew but I think the change will be good for me.

He was tired, he was vexed, he hardly knew what he said.

Pierre knew this now.

The old man already knew everything.

She knew this man.

The next thing she knew, Alex was shaking her awake and telling her they were changing planes.

No one even knew where you were!

Of grammar she knew nothing and she cared nothing for it.

Suddenly we stopped, and I knew, without being told, the Sea was at my feet.

All he knew was that at the commencement of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry!" and our men had begun firing.

Maybe he knew it would do no good.

It was probably the last thing he expected to hear, and yet, he knew it was true.

I knew you'd let them come! she said quickly all in one breath.

If Pete had another name, nobody knew it.

She didn't want to jump into marriage with a man she hardly knew, but she didn't want to chance loosing him, either.

She knew her face was getting red.

He was too weak to chase her down this time, and she knew it.

He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict to finish the enemy and did this not to deceive anyone, but because he knew that the enemy was beaten, as everyone who had taken part in the battle knew it.

This Kutuzov knew well.

They knew that it was for the army to fight, and that if it could not succeed it would not do to take young ladies and house serfs to the Three Hills quarter of Moscow to fight Napoleon, and that they must go away, sorry as they were to abandon their property to destruction.

Pierre did not understand what his benefactor was saying, but he knew (the categories of thoughts were also quite distinct in his dream) that he was talking of goodness and the possibility of being what they were.

And the point is that we knew whom he had it from.

She knew it was right in front.

Pierre knew that Makar Alexeevich was Joseph Bazdeev's half-insane brother and a hard drinker.

A little man in Russian civilian clothes rode out from the ranks, and by his clothes and manner of speaking Pierre at once knew him to be a French salesman from one of the Moscow shops.

They all knew very well that the enchanting countess' illness arose from an inconvenience resulting from marrying two husbands at the same time, and that the Italian's cure consisted in removing such inconvenience; but in Anna Pavlovna's presence no one dared to think of this or even appear to know it.

He knew no more than the others what his words meant.

Everybody knew him, the Emperor liked him, and he was young and interesting.

With the naive conviction of young men in a merry mood that other men's wives were created for them, Rostov did not leave the lady's side and treated her husband in a friendly and conspiratorial style, as if, without speaking of it, they knew how capitally Nicholas and the lady would get on together.

He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green.

This wasn't the Alex she knew.

What had happened that made him ditch everything he knew and come to Arkansas?

By whoever invited all these other people - I suppose because she was someone I knew.