verb
Meaning 1
To defeat and make submit to orders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
bring someone to their knees
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History
Etymology
From the act of kneeling in submission before a person in power.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رَكَّعَ (rakkaʕa) — defeat and make submit to orders
- Arabic: رَضَّخَ (raḍḍaḵa) — defeat and make submit to orders
- Finnish: alistaa — defeat and make submit to orders
- Finnish: saada polvilleen — defeat and make submit to orders
- Finnish: panna polvilleen — defeat and make submit to orders
- Finnish: laittaa polvilleen — defeat and make submit to orders
- French: mettre à genoux — defeat and make submit to orders
- German: jemanden in die Knie zwingen — defeat and make submit to orders
- Italian: mettere in ginocchio — defeat and make submit to orders
- K'iche': xukulsaxik — defeat and make submit to orders
- K'iche': xukulisaxik — defeat and make submit to orders
- Polish: rzucać na kolana — defeat and make submit to orders
- Polish: rzucić na kolana — defeat and make submit to orders
- Spanish: arrodillar a alguien sg or — defeat and make submit to orders