Definition of "kneel" []

• To go down or rest on one or both knees. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness."
• "The inability to kneel is seen as the very essence of the diabolical."
• "Sure, we've gotten used to saying "African American," but it has become a kind of frozen expression, like, indeed ice cream (we don't think about it being "cream of ice" when saying "eyescream") or even knee-l (the word kneel has knee in i--- did you ever think about it)?"