knell [verb]

Definition of knell:

1. make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification

2. A sound of a bell, especially one rung slowly to mark a death or to signal a disaster.

3. A sound that is mournful or ominous.

4. To sound a knell.

Synonyms of knell:

● Ring

● Toll

● Death knell

● End

● Chime

● Peal

● Glas

● Ringing

● Chiming

● Sound

● Bell


Opposite/Antonyms of knell:

● Conceal

● Refrain

● Lose


Sentence/Example of knell:

1. The bright sky shone down on the dying beast as its death knell rang in my ears.

2. The knell of the old order had sounded.

3. The wind's keening was like a knell in the night.

4. The bells tolled, knelling the death of the king.