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frank

/fɹæŋk/ verb C2
  1. To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.

He/she/it franks · Past franked · Past participle franked · -ing form franking

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Base form
frank
He/she/it
franks
Past
franked
Past participle
franked
-ing form
franking

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‘Let us be frank with this gentleman.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 60 · B2
Come, Miss Westbury, be absolutely frank with us.”
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 19 · B2
Otherwise I’d have gone to the park to hear the band play with Frank Stockley.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 294 · C1
Frank Stockley told me--his uncle is one of the board of governors, you know.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 295 · C1

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