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crankling

crankling is the present participle and gerund of crankle.

Meaning of crankle

Verb

crankle (third-person singular simple present crankles, present participle crankling, simple past and past participle crankled)

  1. To bend, turn, or wind.
    • Meander, who is said so intricate to bee,
      Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 7 p. 105
  2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
    • Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.1708, John Philips, Cyder

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Questions about crankling

What is crankling the present participle and gerund of?
Crankling is the present participle and gerund of crankle.

Words near crankling in the dictionary

  1. crankism
  2. crankle
  3. crankled
  4. crankles
  5. crankless
  6. crankling
  7. crankman
  8. crankmen
  9. crankness
  10. crankpin
  11. crankpins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crankling (page history and authors); crankle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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