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Lanked vs Danked - What's the difference?

lanked | danked |

As verbs the difference between lanked and danked

is that lanked is past tense of lank while danked is past tense of dank.

lanked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lank)

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    lank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
    • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    danked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dank)

    • dank

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Moisture; humidity; water.
  • A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • dark, damp and humid.
    • The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
  • * Milton
    • Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
  • * Trench
    • Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
  • (figuratively) highly potent
    • That was very dank marijuana.

    Derived terms

    * dankly * dankness

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