(~s, ~ing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the place where your leg bends.
He will receive physiotherapy on his damaged left ~.
...a ~ injury.
N-COUNT: oft poss N
2.
If something or someone is on your ~ or on your ~s, they are resting or sitting on the upper part of your legs when you are sitting down.
He sat with the package on his ~s...
= lap
N-COUNT: poss N, oft on N
3.
If you are on your ~s, your legs are bent and your ~s are on the ground.
She fell to the ground on her ~s and prayed...
N-PLURAL: poss N, usu on/to N
4.
If you ~ someone, you hit them using your ~.
Ian ~d him in the groin.
VERB: V n
5.
If a country or organization is brought to its ~s, it is almost completely destroyed by someone or something.
The country was being brought to its ~s by the loss of 2.4 million manufacturing jobs...
PHRASE: V inflects