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ranken en · VERB

Etymology

From rank + -en (verbal suffix).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become rank
   • In a word, it is good for nothing but to despatch men out of the world that are burdensome, and to ranken churchyards. 1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History, page 299:
   • The room smoked with cold. Smoke rankened the air. 1996, Annie Proulx, Postcards, page 257:
   • His glance passed again over the patched-up rigs and spavined horses dejectedly standing in this rain-rankened muck. 1993, Nelson C. Nye, Trigger Talk/the Wolf That Rode, page 202:

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