crook
To bend, or form into a hookTo bend, or form into a hook.
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Meaning
3 senses(transitive)To bend, or form into a hook.
He crooked his finger toward me.
krümmen
сгиба́тьsgibátʹ
bend or cause to bend
(intransitive)To become bent or hooked.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Examples
43 sentencesTranslations
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Origin
From Middle English crooken, croken, crokien, from Old English *crōcian, from Proto-West GFrom Middle English crooken, croken, crokien, from Old English *crōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *krōkōn (“to bend, wrinkle”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Dutch kreuken (“to crease, rumple”), German Low German kröken (“to bend, offend, suppress”).
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Forms
crooks, crooking, crooked, crookedSynonyms
1 synonyms- bend or cause to bend:curve
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.