Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flank
Participle: flanked
Gerund: flanking
Indicative
Present
| I | flank |
| you | flank |
| he;she;it | flanks |
| we | flank |
| you | flank |
| they | flank |
Perfect
| I | have flanked |
| you | have flanked |
| he;she;it | has flanked |
| we | have flanked |
| you | have flanked |
| they | have flanked |
Past
| I | flanked |
| you | flanked |
| he;she;it | flanked |
| we | flanked |
| you | flanked |
| they | flanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had flanked |
| you | had flanked |
| he;she;it | had flanked |
| we | had flanked |
| you | had flanked |
| they | had flanked |
Future
| I | will flank |
| you | will flank |
| he;she;it | will flank |
| we | will flank |
| you | will flank |
| they | will flank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flanked |
| you | will have flanked |
| he;she;it | will have flanked |
| we | will have flanked |
| you | will have flanked |
| they | will have flanked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flank |
| you | flank |
| he;she;it | flank |
| we | flank |
| you | flank |
| they | flank |
Perfect
| I | have flanked |
| you | have flanked |
| he;she;it | have flanked |
| we | have flanked |
| you | have flanked |
| they | have flanked |
Imperfect
| I | flanked |
| you | flanked |
| he;she;it | flanked |
| we | flanked |
| you | flanked |
| they | flanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had flanked |
| you | had flanked |
| he;she;it | had flanked |
| we | had flanked |
| you | had flanked |
| they | had flanked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flank |
| you | would flank |
| he;she;it | would flank |
| we | would flank |
| you | would flank |
| they | would flank |
Perfect
| I | would have flanked |
| you | would have flanked |
| he;she;it | would have flanked |
| we | would have flanked |
| you | would have flanked |
| they | would have flanked |
Imperative
| you | flank |
| we | Let's flank |
| you | flank |
Verbs conjugated like 'flank'
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 'flank'
blank,
clank,
flack,
flask,
flunk,
frank,
lank,
plank,
bank,
black,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. late O.E.
flanc "fleshy part of the side," from O.Fr.
flanc, probably from Frank.
*hlanca (cf. O.H.G.
(h)lanca, M.H.G.
lanke "hip joint," Ger.
lenken "to bend, turn, lead"), from PIE base
*qleng- "to bend." The military sense is first attested 1548, as is the verb.
2. From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-West Germanic *hlanku (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.
Verbs referencing "flank"
Dutch
flankeren.
Sample Sentences
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Stately colonnades are flank'd with trees. [c. 1728, Christopher Pitt, Epistle to Mr. Spence:]
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[...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines. [1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Express Travel on Slow Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:]
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It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher. [2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:]