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Word | Knell |
make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; Ring the bells; My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church / the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something / The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person / tolling of a bell, especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc ; sound of the funeral bell / the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral. / to summon or announce by or as if by a knell / to ring especially for a death, funeral, or disaster : toll / to sound in an ominous manner or with an ominous effect / a sound of a bell when it is rung slowly because someone has died, | |
Usage | ⇒ He knew that the bell sounded his death knell ⇒ The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. ⇒ the church bells knelled to mark the death of the nation's beloved leader ⇒ I was sure anyone within five miles would have heard it the way they hear a church bell's knell or a train's whistle. |
Synonyms | ring, peal, toll, chime, clang, dirge, elegy, sound, Requiem, chiming, epicedium, jingle, monody, ringing, threnody, tolling, bell, clink, ding-a-ling, jangle, |
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