Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lank
Participle: lanked
Gerund: lanking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lank |
| you | lank |
| he;she;it | lanks |
| we | lank |
| you | lank |
| they | lank |
Perfect
| I | have lanked |
| you | have lanked |
| he;she;it | has lanked |
| we | have lanked |
| you | have lanked |
| they | have lanked |
Past
| I | lanked |
| you | lanked |
| he;she;it | lanked |
| we | lanked |
| you | lanked |
| they | lanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had lanked |
| you | had lanked |
| he;she;it | had lanked |
| we | had lanked |
| you | had lanked |
| they | had lanked |
Future
| I | will lank |
| you | will lank |
| he;she;it | will lank |
| we | will lank |
| you | will lank |
| they | will lank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lanked |
| you | will have lanked |
| he;she;it | will have lanked |
| we | will have lanked |
| you | will have lanked |
| they | will have lanked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lank |
| you | lank |
| he;she;it | lank |
| we | lank |
| you | lank |
| they | lank |
Perfect
| I | have lanked |
| you | have lanked |
| he;she;it | have lanked |
| we | have lanked |
| you | have lanked |
| they | have lanked |
Imperfect
| I | lanked |
| you | lanked |
| he;she;it | lanked |
| we | lanked |
| you | lanked |
| they | lanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had lanked |
| you | had lanked |
| he;she;it | had lanked |
| we | had lanked |
| you | had lanked |
| they | had lanked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lank |
| you | would lank |
| he;she;it | would lank |
| we | would lank |
| you | would lank |
| they | would lank |
Perfect
| I | would have lanked |
| you | would have lanked |
| he;she;it | would have lanked |
| we | would have lanked |
| you | would have lanked |
| they | would have lanked |
Imperative
| you | lank |
| we | Let's lank |
| you | lank |
Verbs conjugated like 'lank'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lank'
bank,
blank,
clank,
dank,
flank,
gank,
hank,
lack,
laik,
land,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
hlanc "loose and empty, slender, flaccid," from P.Gmc.
*khlankaz, perhaps from a root meaning "flexible" (cf. Ger.
lenken "to bend, turn aside").
Lanky was originally (1637) "straight and flat," used of hair; sense of "awkwardly tall and thin" is first recorded 1818.
2. From Middle English lank, from Old English hlanc, from Proto-West Germanic *hlank, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“lank, thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend, turn, wind, twist”); compare German lenken (“to turn”), Gelenk (“joint”), Old High German hlanca (“hip, side, flank”), and English link (of a chain). See: German, old spelling '
lenken', English '
link'.
Verbs referencing "lank"
German, old spelling
lenken.
Sample Sentences
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[…] on the Alps
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It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
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Which some did die to look on: and all this—
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It wounds thine honour that I speak it now—
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Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek
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So much as lank’d not. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:]