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thnk

thnk is the abbreviation of thank.

thnk is the abbreviation of think.

Meaning of thank

Verb

thank (third-person singular simple present thanks, present participle thanking, simple past and past participle thanked)

  1. (transitive) To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).
    • She thanked him for the lift.
  2. (transitive) In the future tense in the form one will thank someone to do something, chiefly expressing a command or criticism: to request that (someone) do something.
    • I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!
  3. (rare, transitive) To express appreciation or gratitude for (something).
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To respond to (someone) out of, or as if out of, appreciation or gratitude.
    • I should summon my lord from the Queen's royal presence to do your business, should I?—I were like to be thanked with a horse-whip.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC...
  5. (figuratively, transitive) Chiefly followed by for: to credit or hold (someone or something) responsible, especially for something negative; to blame.
    • We can thank global warming for this freak weather.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To express gratitude.

Meaning of think

Verb

think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)

  1. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
    • Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
    Synonyms:
    ponder
  2. (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
    • "I should phone my mother," I thought.
  3. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
    • I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
  4. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone
    • I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
  5. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
    • I don't think it worth complaining about the leak in the roof, is it?
    Synonyms:
    have opinion, deem
  6. (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
    • We should/would have thought she could've washed her hands before, at least.

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Questions about thnk

What is thnk the abbreviation of?
Thnk is the abbreviation of thank.

Words near thnk in the dictionary

  1. thneed
  2. thneeds
  3. thnetopsychism
  4. thnetopsychist
  5. thnetopsychists
  6. thnk
  7. thnx
  8. tho
  9. tho'
  10. tho't
  11. tho'ts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thnk (page history and authors); thank (page history and authors); think (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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