Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crake
Participle: craked
Gerund: craking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | crake |
| you | crake |
| he;she;it | crakes |
| we | crake |
| you | crake |
| they | crake |
Perfect
| I | have craked |
| you | have craked |
| he;she;it | has craked |
| we | have craked |
| you | have craked |
| they | have craked |
Past
| I | craked |
| you | craked |
| he;she;it | craked |
| we | craked |
| you | craked |
| they | craked |
Pluperfect
| I | had craked |
| you | had craked |
| he;she;it | had craked |
| we | had craked |
| you | had craked |
| they | had craked |
Future
| I | will crake |
| you | will crake |
| he;she;it | will crake |
| we | will crake |
| you | will crake |
| they | will crake |
Future Perfect
| I | will have craked |
| you | will have craked |
| he;she;it | will have craked |
| we | will have craked |
| you | will have craked |
| they | will have craked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crake |
| you | crake |
| he;she;it | crake |
| we | crake |
| you | crake |
| they | crake |
Perfect
| I | have craked |
| you | have craked |
| he;she;it | have craked |
| we | have craked |
| you | have craked |
| they | have craked |
Imperfect
| I | craked |
| you | craked |
| he;she;it | craked |
| we | craked |
| you | craked |
| they | craked |
Pluperfect
| I | had craked |
| you | had craked |
| he;she;it | had craked |
| we | had craked |
| you | had craked |
| they | had craked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crake |
| you | would crake |
| he;she;it | would crake |
| we | would crake |
| you | would crake |
| they | would crake |
Perfect
| I | would have craked |
| you | would have craked |
| he;she;it | would have craked |
| we | would have craked |
| you | would have craked |
| they | would have craked |
Imperative
| you | crake |
| we | Let's crake |
| you | crake |
Verbs conjugated like 'crake'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'crake'
brake,
cake,
crane,
crape,
crase,
crate,
crave,
craze,
rake,
acrase,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.
Sample Sentences
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How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might. [1854 October, “MIDNIGHT IN JULY”, in The Kerry Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Antiquities, Polite Literature, Poetry, volume 1, number 10, page 159:]
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'How very disagreeable!' said Annie; 'perhaps the birds took it in turn to crake.' [1872, Bertha E. Wright, Marvels from nature; or, A second visit to aunt Bessie, page 175:]
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Of course, a corncrake, as its name suggests, likes to crake among the corn and hayfields, so that in fact you are unlikely ever to confuse it with the spotted crake, a bird to which dry land is almost anathema. [1951, The Listener - Volume 46, page 90:]