knife up

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To trim the edges on a boot or shoe of bits of leather, etc. that may be attached to the sides. dated
    — For instance, does he suppose that the edges of samples are set only twice, the same as on regular goods, or that they are not knifed up here and there by the foreman of the making room, or that the bottom finish is not given more attention than the stock shoes?
  2. To trim with a knife. broadly
    — The following mishap and its repair, I think, end to show marine engineers aboard tramp steamers the value of taking care of what appeared at the time to be useless articles; for it proved to me the advantage of having retained from the junk dealer an old windlass stop valve which had been knifed up, or rather the valve seat had been knifed up so often that it had become thin enough to allow steam to pass through the somewhat porous metal of which it was made.
  3. To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
    — He knifed up a morsel, wandered on, chewing happily.
  4. To cut up or carve up with a knife.
    — Elkins had knifed up Hines pretty good before running out.
  5. To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between. figuratively
    — Nosegay loafed along at five knots as it knifed up the yacht basin, passing the line of marinas that laced the inner shore of Shelter Island.
  6. To penetrate sharply upward. figuratively
    — He leaped almost into the teeth of the blue-tinged ray which knifed up with uncanny accuracy from the slit in the roof of the hut.
  7. To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner figuratively
    — Cold draughts knifed up between the duckboards.
  8. To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation figuratively
    — Pain knifed up his leg as he landed, the ladder atop him.
  9. To sit up or stand up suddenly. figuratively
    — I knifed up on the bed. Clean sober awake.
  10. To rise precipitously.
    — Bond took a last gulp of breath and got going again, still left-handed, away from the cable railway, towards the next flag, a distant dot on the edge of the shadow thrown by the great Matterhorn-shaped peak of Piz Gloria, which knifed up into the spangled sky in dreadful majesty.

词形变化

knifes up present,singular,third-person knifing up participle,present knifed up participle,past knifed up past knive up alternative
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