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crookening

crookening is the present participle and gerund of crooken.

Meaning of crooken

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

Questions about crookening

What is crookening the present participle and gerund of?
Crookening is the present participle and gerund of crooken.

Words near crookening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crookening (page history and authors); crooken (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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