In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Collins et al.1 built the first three-dimensional, two-legged andkneedpassive-dynamic walking machine.
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It is an accepted fact that the baking industry is one in which many men's faces look like the dough which theykneed.
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Some of them are robust—retired army officers and their wives—and they are not habitually weakkneedin the face of a real threat.
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This is one of the weakkneeddemoralising attitudes tnat is about.
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