Ranken
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Ranken is a verb meaning (rare, ambitransitive) To make or become rank.
Meaning
(rare, ambitransitive) To make or become rank.
Example Sentences
The room smoked with cold. Smoke rankened the air.
His glance passed again over the patched-up rigs and spavined horses dejectedly standing in this rain-rankened muck.
In a word, it is good for nothing but to despatch men out of the world that are burdensome, and to ranken churchyards.
Word Forms
- rankens
- rankening
- rankened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rank, rate, range, enrank, place, rerank.
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