knead/kneed/need

knead (nēd)

Verb. Transitive

• To mix and work into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands: kneading dough.
• To make or shape by or as if by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands.
• To squeeze, press, or roll with the hands, as in massaging: kneading a painful calf muscle.

Kneed (nēd)

Verb. Transitive

• To strike with the knee.

need (nēd)

Noun

• A condition or situation in which something is required or wanted: crops in need of water; a need for affection.
• Something required or wanted; a requisite:
• Necessity; obligation: There is no need for you to go.
• A condition of poverty or misfortune: The family is in dire need.

Verb. Auxiliary

• To be under the necessity of or the obligation to: They need not come.

Verb. Transitive

• To have need of; require: The family needs money.

Verb. Intransitive

• To be in need or want.
• To be necessary.