ADJ
- blunt, sharp
- long
- bone, bone-handled, silver, steel
- bread, butcher's, carving, craft, fish, flick, hunting, kitchen, palette, pocket, sheath, Stanley(R), surgeon's, table
QUANT
- set
- a set of kitchen knives
VERB + KNIFE
- pick up
- She picked up her knife and fork and started to eat
- lay down, put down
- use
- Use a sharp knife to cut away the spare pastry
- sharpen
- hold
KNIFE + VERB
- cut
- That knife doesn't cut very well?it needs sharpening
- clatter
PREP
- with a/the ~
- The lines can be cut with a craft knife
PHRASES
- the blade of a knife, the handle of a knife, a knife and fork
VERB + KNIFE
- be armed with, carry, have
- She carries a knife in her bag now
- brandish, wield
- draw (out), produce, pull (out), take out
- He suddenly pulled a knife on me
- come at sb with, stab sb with, threaten sb with
- She stabbed him in the back with a 12-inch knife
- plunge, push, put, stick
- He plunged the knife deep into her heart
- sharpen, whet
KNIFE + VERB
- cut
- clatter
- As he fell, the knife clattered to the floor
KNIFE + NOUN
- attack
- a frenzied knife attack
- wound
- blade
PHRASES
- the blade of a knife, the hilt of a knife, hold a knife against/at/to sb's throat, a knife in sb's heart (figurative)
- Each word he uttered was a knife in her heart
- put a knife to sb's throat
- She put the knife to his throat to frighten him into silence