kneaded; kneading; kneads
1
a
: to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands
kneading dough
b
: to manipulate or massage with a kneading motion
kneaded sore neck muscles
2
: to form or shape by or as if by kneading
kneader
noun
Examples of knead in a Sentence
Knead the dough until it is smooth.
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Think about it: The holiday season involves packing bags, bedazzling your tree with baubles, and kneading dough for sugar cookies.
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Among the guidelines: The dough consists of four simple ingredients — water, salt, wheat flour and yeast, and must be kneaded by hand or with a slow-speed mixer and formed without a rolling pin.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
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Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
How to use it: Massage guns can knead out kinks and soothe soreness in your legs, glutes, forearms, and shoulders.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 8 Jan. 2025
Think about it: The holiday season involves packing bags, bedazzling your tree with baubles, and kneading dough for sugar cookies.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
Among the guidelines: The dough consists of four simple ingredients — water, salt, wheat flour and yeast, and must be kneaded by hand or with a slow-speed mixer and formed without a rolling pin.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Knead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knead. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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