What does shanked mean?
Shanked means simple past and past participle of shank.
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/ʃæŋkt/ · verb
simple past and past participle of shank.
'It is the top of a pearl boot button undoubtedly, I should say,' pronounced the sergeant. 'One of those metal-shanked things that they wire into the boot nowadays. […]'
Your Muscat Grapes are both shanked and scalded ; the latter can be easily remedied, but the former is more difficult.
Use shanked when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shanked means simple past and past participle of shank.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
'It is the top of a pearl boot button undoubtedly, I should say,' pronounced the sergeant. 'One of those metal-shanked things that they wire into the boot nowadays. […]'
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