Yanked vs Lanked - What's the difference?
yanked | lanked |
(yank)
A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
To pull something with a quick, strong action.
to remove from circulation
(lank)
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. -
As verbs the difference between yanked and lanked
is that yanked is past tense of yank while lanked is past tense of lank.yanked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*yank
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* jerk, tugVerb
(en verb)- They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.
Synonyms
* (pull with a quick strong action) jerk, tug * (remove from circulation) pull, recallReferences
*lanked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *lank
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Adjective
(er)- (Macaulay)