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knee-capping

knee-capping is the alternative spelling of kneecapping.

Meaning of kneecapping

Noun

kneecapping (countable and uncountable, plural kneecappings)

  1. (gerund) The act of injuring the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees; often a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
    • The mafiosi punished the informer by giving him a kneecapping.
  2. (broadly, figuratively, gerund) An excessively and needlessly damaging attack or disparagement.

Forms of knee-capping

pluralknee-cappings

Origin of knee-capping

From knee-cap + -ing.

Questions about knee-capping

What is knee-capping the alternative spelling of?
Knee-capping is the alternative spelling of kneecapping.

Words near knee-capping in the dictionary

  1. knee-bands
  2. knee-breeches
  3. knee-buckler
  4. knee-bucklers
  5. knee-cap
  6. knee-capping
  7. knee-cappings
  8. knee-caps
  9. knee-cords
  10. knee-crooking
  11. knee-deep

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knee-capping (page history and authors); kneecapping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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