Usually means: Assume position on knees, bow.
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  1. kneel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kneel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kneel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kneel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kneel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kneel, kneel: Wordnik
  7. kneel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. kneel: Wiktionary
  9. kneel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. kneel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. kneel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Kneel, kneel: Dictionary.com
  13. kneel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. kneel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Kneel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Kneel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. kneel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. kneel: Rhymezone
  19. kneel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. kneel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. kneel: Free Dictionary
  22. kneel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. kneel: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. kneel: Legal dictionary

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  1. kneel: Idioms

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  1. kneel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See kneeled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
verb:  (intransitive, of a bus or other vehicle) To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to kneel.
verb:  (reflexive, archaic) To rest on (one's) knees

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