Word Finder - known

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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"?

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Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.

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A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.

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Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.

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He was a known pickpocket.

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Accepted, familiar, researched.

I should have known you would feel this way.

You've known her all your life.

Rules of evidence are widely known and honored.

Exhaustion made itself known and her head nodded.

Maybe not, but it would have made a difference if I had known how you felt.

In Samos the little slave soon became known for his wisdom and courage.

I have known him a long time!

I should have known how you felt about him.

Wooden birds fluttered among the trees and wooden cows were browsing upon the wooden grass; but the most amazing things of all were the wooden people--the creatures known as Gargoyles.

I've known Brandon since he was knee-high to a grasshopper.

Some of it is known, but the function of each of the thirty thousand genes has to be figured out one at a time.

I probably wouldn't have known the difference, though.

This is known as "internalizing externalities."

I am glad for your sake and I've known him since he was so high.

I love you and have known you a long time.

They were chatting together as if they had known each other all their lives.

He had known her for a long time, and he had come to Ashley hoping she would be here.

I pondered the known facts.

In France there once lived a famous man who was known as the Marquis de Lafayette. When he was a little boy his mother called him Gilbert.

I should have known.

I was, for a reason known to God alone, much more calm than the situation dictated.

I wish I had known.

There were bears and mountain lions, but in all the years she had lived here, she had never known of anyone being attacked.

I could understand why he would be chasing her, but if I'd have known she'd go for a guy older than me...

Real estate records were scoured for any known relative of the now deceased murderer in an attempt to locate family owned property, a difficult chore as mother Grasso wedded three men and lived with countless others.

A sense of pity he had never before known overflowed Pierre's heart.

Four dissimilar individuals, tied to a damaged being known only to one of us who at one time hated him for the loss of her friend.

You must have known her voice.

At the first hint of below freezing weather, Howie was on the job, covering everything and reading up on all preventive measures known to man.

There was a special reason for this, as he had got married two years before--a fact known only to his most intimate friends.

On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well- known, but quite false, conception.

This meant two stockings, which by a secret process known only to herself Anna Makarovna used to knit at the same time on the same needles, and which, when they were ready, she always triumphantly drew, one out of the other, in the children's presence.

Had her family known the same terror in their last moments of life?

It was difficult to believe that Connie would tell Allen, knowing his weakness for alcohol, but how else would he have known?

Surely Pete must have known...

After all, they had known and loved each other for a long time.

The police blamed street violence though the neighborhood was wrong and girl had no known gang involvement.

I've known for months; almost since the first time we did it... slept together.

You've known this for months but not mentioned it to him?

You could tell Howie I came to you for advice; that I just suspected and didn't know what to do, not that I've known all along!

The time, of day however, was precisely known.

I hadn't even known he was married and now he was shinnying out on a skinny limb on my behalf.

There's no way we could have known.

When Betsy mentioned telling the After people, a thought struck me that the death of Owen Bryce, once known to our friends at After would probably tie me directly to the tipster as well.

This was so unlike the girl I'd known for a lifetime.

I hadn't known how Annie was abducted and chastised myself for not seeking the details.

I'm sure Howie must have known by the look on my face my news wouldn't be favorable.

The unspeakable deeds of this animal who held us were well known to me, vicariously, through the notes of Howie's visits to his past.

I've known it for months, since I was observed when no one was there to see me.

She'd never seen him so upset in all the years she'd known him.