How to pronounce “knead”

Meaning

• [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.
• (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
• (intransitive, felinology) Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
• (transitive) To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
• [Noun]
• The act of kneading something.

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