- know, cognize, cognise - be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time"
Antonyms: ignore
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun knower1, noun knowing1
Sam and Sue know
- know - know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"
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Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- know - be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- know - be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"
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They know themselves
- know, experience, live - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
--5 is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
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These men know the river
- acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know - accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods"
--6 is one way to accept
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- know - have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"
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Somebody ----s something
- roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
--8 is one way to copulate, mate, pair, couple
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Somebody ----s
- know - know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off"
--9 is one way to recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- know - be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"
--10 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
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Somebody ----s something
- know - perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"
--11 is one way to remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- know - be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"