crank
/kɹæŋk/ verbo C2En español: arrancar con manivela, hacer girar
- To turn by means of a crank. · Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
- To turn a crank. · He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
- To turn. · He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
- To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank. · I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over· Crank it up!
- To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining. · Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
- To be running at a high level of output or effort. · By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
- To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
He/she/it cranks · Pasado cranked · Participio pasado cranked · Forma en -ing cranking
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- crank
- He/she/it
- cranks
- Pasado
- cranked
- Participio pasado
- cranked
- Forma en -ing
- cranking
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
Lynde says that her father is a perfect old crank, and meaner than second skimmings.
Old Frankland the crank?”
Every hour, she cranked the heavy iron weights that kept the lens turning.
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