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crooken

crooken verb: to make crooked.

Verb

crooken (third-person singular simple present crookens, present participle crookening, simple past and past participle crookened)

  1. (transitive) To make crooked.
    • "[…] The amount the jacket needs to be 'crookened': 3/8%".2016, Jo Baker-Waters, Pattern Cutting Techniques for Ladies' Jackets, page 102

Forms of crooken

third-person singular presentcrookens
present participlecrookening
past participlecrookened
pastcrookened

Origin of crooken

From crook + -en.

Questions about crooken

What does crooken mean?
Crooken means to make crooked.
What part of speech is crooken?
Crooken is a verb.
What is the past tense of crooken?
The past tense of crooken is crookened.

Words near crooken in the dictionary

  1. crookeder
  2. crookedest
  3. crookedly
  4. crookedness
  5. crookednesses
  6. crooken
  7. crookened
  8. crookening
  9. crookens
  10. crooker
  11. crookeries

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