Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crook
Participle: crooked
Gerund: crooking
Indicative
Present
| I | crook |
| you | crook |
| he;she;it | crooks |
| we | crook |
| you | crook |
| they | crook |
Perfect
| I | have crooked |
| you | have crooked |
| he;she;it | has crooked |
| we | have crooked |
| you | have crooked |
| they | have crooked |
Past
| I | crooked |
| you | crooked |
| he;she;it | crooked |
| we | crooked |
| you | crooked |
| they | crooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had crooked |
| you | had crooked |
| he;she;it | had crooked |
| we | had crooked |
| you | had crooked |
| they | had crooked |
Future
| I | will crook |
| you | will crook |
| he;she;it | will crook |
| we | will crook |
| you | will crook |
| they | will crook |
Future Perfect
| I | will have crooked |
| you | will have crooked |
| he;she;it | will have crooked |
| we | will have crooked |
| you | will have crooked |
| they | will have crooked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crook |
| you | crook |
| he;she;it | crook |
| we | crook |
| you | crook |
| they | crook |
Perfect
| I | have crooked |
| you | have crooked |
| he;she;it | have crooked |
| we | have crooked |
| you | have crooked |
| they | have crooked |
Imperfect
| I | crooked |
| you | crooked |
| he;she;it | crooked |
| we | crooked |
| you | crooked |
| they | crooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had crooked |
| you | had crooked |
| he;she;it | had crooked |
| we | had crooked |
| you | had crooked |
| they | had crooked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crook |
| you | would crook |
| he;she;it | would crook |
| we | would crook |
| you | would crook |
| they | would crook |
Perfect
| I | would have crooked |
| you | would have crooked |
| he;she;it | would have crooked |
| we | would have crooked |
| you | would have crooked |
| they | would have crooked |
Imperative
| you | crook |
| we | Let's crook |
| you | crook |
Verbs conjugated like 'crook'
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 'crook'
brook,
cook,
croak,
crock,
cronk,
crool,
croon,
rook,
abrook,
book,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English crooken, croken, crokien, from Old English *crōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *krōkōn (“to bend, wrinkle”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Dutch kreuken (“to crease, rumple”), German Low German kröken (“to bend, offend, suppress”). See: Dutch '
kreuken'.
Verbs referencing "crook"
French
escroquer.
Sample Sentences
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He crooked his finger toward me.
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No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
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For if a damsel's blind or lame, / Or nature's hand has crooked her frame, / Or if she's deaf or is wall-eyed; / Yet if her heart is well inclined, / Some tender lover she shall find / That panteth for a bride. [1784, William Blake, Songs from, “An Island in the Moon”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 50:]
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“[…]In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair[…]. [1917, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina, Part 4, Chapter 5:]
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For the foundation of youthe well ſet (as Plato doth ſaye) the whole bodye of the common wealthe ſhall flouriſhe thereafter. If the younge tree growe croked, when it is oulde, a man ſhall rather breake it than ſtreight it. And I thincke there is no one thinge that crokes youthe more then ſuch unlawful games. [1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 1, page 88:]
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The referring of all to a man's self, is more tolerable in a sovereign prince; because themselves are not only themselves, but their good and evil is at the peril of the public fortune. But it is a desperate evil, in a servant to a prince, or a citizen in a republic. For whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentric to the ends of his master, or state. [1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Wisdom For a Man's Self,”, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral:]