crank
verb/kræŋk/
/kræŋk/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they crank | /kræŋk/ /kræŋk/ |
| he / she / it cranks | /kræŋks/ /kræŋks/ |
| past simple cranked | /kræŋkt/ /kræŋkt/ |
| past participle cranked | /kræŋkt/ /kræŋkt/ |
| -ing form cranking | /ˈkræŋkɪŋ/ /ˈkræŋkɪŋ/ |
- crank something (up) to make something turn or move by using a crank
- to crank an engine
- (figurative) He has a limited time to crank the reforms into action.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCrank is used with these nouns as the object:- engine
Word Originverb Old English cranc (recorded in crancstæf, denoting a weaver's implement), related to crincan ‘bend, yield, fall in battle’, of Germanic origin .Definitions on the go
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