Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crank
Participle: cranked
Gerund: cranking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | crank |
| you | crank |
| he;she;it | cranks |
| we | crank |
| you | crank |
| they | crank |
Perfect
| I | have cranked |
| you | have cranked |
| he;she;it | has cranked |
| we | have cranked |
| you | have cranked |
| they | have cranked |
Past
| I | cranked |
| you | cranked |
| he;she;it | cranked |
| we | cranked |
| you | cranked |
| they | cranked |
Pluperfect
| I | had cranked |
| you | had cranked |
| he;she;it | had cranked |
| we | had cranked |
| you | had cranked |
| they | had cranked |
Future
| I | will crank |
| you | will crank |
| he;she;it | will crank |
| we | will crank |
| you | will crank |
| they | will crank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cranked |
| you | will have cranked |
| he;she;it | will have cranked |
| we | will have cranked |
| you | will have cranked |
| they | will have cranked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crank |
| you | crank |
| he;she;it | crank |
| we | crank |
| you | crank |
| they | crank |
Perfect
| I | have cranked |
| you | have cranked |
| he;she;it | have cranked |
| we | have cranked |
| you | have cranked |
| they | have cranked |
Imperfect
| I | cranked |
| you | cranked |
| he;she;it | cranked |
| we | cranked |
| you | cranked |
| they | cranked |
Pluperfect
| I | had cranked |
| you | had cranked |
| he;she;it | had cranked |
| we | had cranked |
| you | had cranked |
| they | had cranked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crank |
| you | would crank |
| he;she;it | would crank |
| we | would crank |
| you | would crank |
| they | would crank |
Perfect
| I | would have cranked |
| you | would have cranked |
| he;she;it | would have cranked |
| we | would have cranked |
| you | would have cranked |
| they | would have cranked |
Imperative
| you | crank |
| we | Let's crank |
| you | crank |
Verbs conjugated like 'crank'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'crank'
brank,
chank,
clank,
crack,
crane,
crawk,
cronk,
crunk,
frank,
prank,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E. cranc- preserved only in crancstæf "a weaver's instrument," from P.Gmc. base *krank-, and related to crincan "to bend, yield." Eng. retains the literal sense of the ancient root, while Ger. and Du. krank "sick," formerly "weak, small," is a figurative use. The sense of "an eccentric person," especially one who is irrationally fixated, is first recorded 1833, said to be from the crank of a barrel organ, which makes it play the same tune over and over, but more likely a back-formation from cranky "cross-tempered, irritable" (1821), and evolving from earlier senses of "a twist or fanciful turn of speech" (1594) or "inaccessible hole or crevice" (1562). Popularized 1881 when it was applied to Horace Greeley during Guiteau's trial. The verb meaning "turning a crank" is first attested 1908, with reference to automobile engines.
2. From Middle English crank, cronk, from a shortening of Old English crancstæf (“weaving tool, crank”, literally “bent or crooked staff”), the first element ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
Sample Sentences
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Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
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He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
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He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
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I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
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Crank it up!
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Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
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By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
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Better computers use variable speed fans so they run at top speed only when the computer is really cranking [2009, Carol Baroudi, Jeffrey Hill, Arnold Reinhold, Green IT For Dummies:]
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When we were playing at the top of our ability and really cranking, the whole thing could sound like a jet plane taking off in the club. [2009, Mike Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, ...:]
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expected that the NVA and VC were in a position to dish out what they're dishing out, and the rumor mill is really cranking overtime. [2011, P. L. Nelson, The Incessant Voice of War: The Black Rose Conspiracies, page 64:]
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See how this river comes me cranking in. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]