Associations to the word «Knead»

Wiktionary

KNEAD, verb. ​(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
KNEAD, verb. (transitive) (figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
KNEAD, verb. (intransitive) (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.

Dictionary definition

KNEAD, verb. Make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft".
KNEAD, verb. Manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; "She rubbed down her child with a sponge".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin