ranken

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verb

To make or become rank

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Meanings

verbranken (third-person singular simple present rankens, present participle rankening, simple past and past participle rankened)

present singular third person rankens · participle present rankening · participle past rankened · past rankened

  1. ambitransitiverareTo make or become rank

    The room smoked with cold. Smoke rankened the air.

    1996, Annie Proulx, Postcards, page 257
    2 more examples

    In a word, it is good for nothing but to despatch men out of the world that are burdensome, and to ranken churchyards.

    1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History, page 299

    His glance passed again over the patched-up rigs and spavined horses dejectedly standing in this rain-rankened muck.

    1993, Nelson C. Nye, Trigger Talk/the Wolf That Rode, page 202

Origin

From rank + -en (verbal suffix).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

ranken. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranken

MLA

“ranken.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranken. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ranken,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranken.

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