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"text": "Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin."
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"sense": "to start something mechanical",
"word": "käynnistää"
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"sense": "to start something mechanical",
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"ref": "1976 August 14, John Mitzel, Richard Hall, “The Whodunit Writer: Why He Dun It”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 7",
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"To muster up the mental energy to do something."
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"(idiomatic, reflexive) To muster up the mental energy to do something."
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"text": "He cranked up the volume to 11."
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"ref": "2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC",
"text": "And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.",
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"To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something."
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"(idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something."
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"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "lisätä"
},
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"sense": "to increase power or volume",
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"roman": "pribavitʹ zvuka",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "прибавить звука"
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"note": "used with figurative meaning of having a riot",
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"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "зажигать"
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"sense": "to increase power or volume",
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"sense": "to increase power or volume",
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"ref": "2003, Chris Jenks, Transgression",
"text": "Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?",
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{
"ref": "2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 66",
"text": "Let's hope your ol' buddy Majors is all he's cranked up to be, for we're about to introduce him to what you yanks refer to as hard ball.",
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"ref": "2013, Alistair Moffat, Susan Mansfield, Alexander Smith, The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece",
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"To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote."
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"text": "And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.",
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"ref": "2003, Chris Jenks, Transgression",
"text": "Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?",
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},
{
"ref": "2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 66",
"text": "Let's hope your ol' buddy Majors is all he's cranked up to be, for we're about to introduce him to what you yanks refer to as hard ball.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Alistair Moffat, Susan Mansfield, Alexander Smith, The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece",
"text": "That whole campaign was a damp squib, they cranked it up as a real possibility that Scotland might win, and when we actually got there it didn't happen like that, and everybody came home quite early with their tails between their legs.",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to start something mechanical",
"word": "käynnistää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to start something mechanical",
"word": "laittaa käyntiin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to start something mechanical",
"word": "ankurbeln"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zavoditʹ",
"sense": "to start something mechanical",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заводить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to start something mechanical",
"word": "arrancar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "lisätä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "kohottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "monter"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pribavitʹ zvuka",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "прибавить звука"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "used for the volume",
"roman": "sdelatʹ na vsju katušku",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "сделать на всю катушку"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podnjatʹ",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "поднять"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podnaprjačʹ",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "поднапрячь"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podnaprjačʹsja",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "поднапрячься"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "used with figurative meaning of having a riot",
"roman": "zažigatʹ",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "зажигать"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "aumentar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to increase power or volume",
"word": "subir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to describe in praiseworthy terms",
"word": "kehua"
}
],
"word": "crank up"
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