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CRANKLE

Definition: CRANKLE

CRANKLE

Intransitive verb

1. To bend, turn, or wind.

Noun

1. A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

Transitive verb

1. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: CRANKLE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fold	Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.
	Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expression: CRANKLE

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "CRANKLE": crinkle-crankle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: CRANKLE

Language		Translations for "CRANKLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Vietnamese		chỗ khúc khuỷu (anfractuosity), khúc uốn quanh (crinkle), khúc quanh co (crinkle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: CRANKLE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "CRANKLE": crankled, crankles. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: CRANKLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-l-n-r"
	-1 letter: calker, canker, lacker, lancer, lanker, rackle, rankle.
	-2 letters: ankle, caner, carle, clank, clean, clear, clerk, crake, crane, crank, creak, lacer, laker, lance, learn, nacre, rance, renal.
	-3 letters: acne, acre, alec, cake, calk, cane, care, cark, carl, carn, clan, earl, earn, elan, kale, kane, karn, kern, knar, lace, lack, lake, lane, lank, lark, leak.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-l-n-r"
	+1 letter: cracknel, crankled, crankles.
	+2 letters: blackener, cracknels, lackering.
	+3 letters: blackeners, cornflakes, linebacker, retackling, trancelike.
	+4 letters: blackhander, cartoonlike, leatherneck, linebackers, racewalking.
	+5 letters: blackhanders, leathernecks, racewalkings, stickhandler.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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