Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yank
Participle: yanked
Gerund: yanking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yank |
| you | yank |
| he;she;it | yanks |
| we | yank |
| you | yank |
| they | yank |
Perfect
| I | have yanked |
| you | have yanked |
| he;she;it | has yanked |
| we | have yanked |
| you | have yanked |
| they | have yanked |
Past
| I | yanked |
| you | yanked |
| he;she;it | yanked |
| we | yanked |
| you | yanked |
| they | yanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yanked |
| you | had yanked |
| he;she;it | had yanked |
| we | had yanked |
| you | had yanked |
| they | had yanked |
Future
| I | will yank |
| you | will yank |
| he;she;it | will yank |
| we | will yank |
| you | will yank |
| they | will yank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yanked |
| you | will have yanked |
| he;she;it | will have yanked |
| we | will have yanked |
| you | will have yanked |
| they | will have yanked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yank |
| you | yank |
| he;she;it | yank |
| we | yank |
| you | yank |
| they | yank |
Perfect
| I | have yanked |
| you | have yanked |
| he;she;it | have yanked |
| we | have yanked |
| you | have yanked |
| they | have yanked |
Imperfect
| I | yanked |
| you | yanked |
| he;she;it | yanked |
| we | yanked |
| you | yanked |
| they | yanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yanked |
| you | had yanked |
| he;she;it | had yanked |
| we | had yanked |
| you | had yanked |
| they | had yanked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yank |
| you | would yank |
| he;she;it | would yank |
| we | would yank |
| you | would yank |
| they | would yank |
Perfect
| I | would have yanked |
| you | would have yanked |
| he;she;it | would have yanked |
| we | would have yanked |
| you | would have yanked |
| they | would have yanked |
Imperative
| you | yank |
| we | Let's yank |
| you | yank |
Verbs conjugated like 'yank'
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 'yank'
bank,
dank,
gank,
hank,
lank,
mank,
rank,
tank,
wank,
yack,
Additional Information
Etymology
Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin. See: Scots '
yank'.
Sample Sentences
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Now a white-backed rams its head down the wildebeest’s throat and yanks out an eight-inch length of trachea, ribbed like a vacuum hose. [2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:]
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[Regarding risks of AI] And you just have to have somebody close to the power cord. [Laughs.]^([sic]) Right when you see it about to happen, you gotta yank that electricity out of the wall, man. [2016 October, Scott Dadich, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World”, in Wired, →ISSN:]
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They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.
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The cops yanked my driver's license.
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In the dark protection of the auditorium and his Baltimore cape, with two coiled females only inches beneath his feet, completely in his power and ignorant of the invisible force that held them captive, only this shadow knew, the True Dildough, with great pleasure and tremendous gutsy motions, yanked his full-grown penis to a gigantically pleasurable orgasm. [1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 68–69:]