Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crick
Participle: cricked
Gerund: cricking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | crick |
| you | crick |
| he;she;it | cricks |
| we | crick |
| you | crick |
| they | crick |
Perfect
| I | have cricked |
| you | have cricked |
| he;she;it | has cricked |
| we | have cricked |
| you | have cricked |
| they | have cricked |
Past
| I | cricked |
| you | cricked |
| he;she;it | cricked |
| we | cricked |
| you | cricked |
| they | cricked |
Pluperfect
| I | had cricked |
| you | had cricked |
| he;she;it | had cricked |
| we | had cricked |
| you | had cricked |
| they | had cricked |
Future
| I | will crick |
| you | will crick |
| he;she;it | will crick |
| we | will crick |
| you | will crick |
| they | will crick |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cricked |
| you | will have cricked |
| he;she;it | will have cricked |
| we | will have cricked |
| you | will have cricked |
| they | will have cricked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crick |
| you | crick |
| he;she;it | crick |
| we | crick |
| you | crick |
| they | crick |
Perfect
| I | have cricked |
| you | have cricked |
| he;she;it | have cricked |
| we | have cricked |
| you | have cricked |
| they | have cricked |
Imperfect
| I | cricked |
| you | cricked |
| he;she;it | cricked |
| we | cricked |
| you | cricked |
| they | cricked |
Pluperfect
| I | had cricked |
| you | had cricked |
| he;she;it | had cricked |
| we | had cricked |
| you | had cricked |
| they | had cricked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crick |
| you | would crick |
| he;she;it | would crick |
| we | would crick |
| you | would crick |
| they | would crick |
Perfect
| I | would have cricked |
| you | would have cricked |
| he;she;it | would have cricked |
| we | would have cricked |
| you | would have cricked |
| they | would have cricked |
Imperative
| you | crick |
| we | Let's crick |
| you | crick |
Verbs conjugated like 'crick'
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 'crick'
brick,
chick,
click,
crack,
crock,
cruck,
prick,
rick,
trick,
wrick,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek.
Sample Sentences
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Stomach sleeping never worked for her because her neck cricked and pained in so short a time, that she never got the chance to fall asleep that way although the rest of her body snuggled well into the bed in that position. [2008, Jacqueline Signori, Ada, →ISBN, page 48:]
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“He's upstairs.” As soon as she said this, a loud knocking came from the crawl space below. Katrín was so startled that her neck cricked painfully as she looked down. Adrenalin rushed through her veins and the pain in her fingers disappeared. [2014, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, I Remember You: A Ghost Story, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:]
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He'd fallen asleep after all (and he'd done it in such a way as to crick his neck and his back and put his right arm to sleep; hardly a good start to a busy day) and now daylight was seeping through the bald patches in the thatch, ... [2013, K. J. Parker, Pattern, Orbit, →ISBN:]
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He stopped a few feet from her, probably because he'd have to crick his neck to glare at her and that would just be embarrassing for him. “Dealing with garbage suits you.” [2011, Camy Tang, Protection for Hire: A Novel, Zondervan, →ISBN:]
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The throbbing pain that even now was coursing through his neck and shoulders, making him crick his neck. [2012, Doug Johnstone, Hit and Run, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:]
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Addy was tall for a woman, and he liked that because he didn't have to crick his neck ... [2015, Emma Miller, A Match for Addy, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 121:]
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Now she was able to stand on her feet, so long as she kept her neck cricked. [2018, Tim Major, Machineries of Mercy, ChiZine Publications, →ISBN:]