"ranken" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "rank",
        "3": "-en",
        "id2": "inchoative",
        "pos2": "verbal suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "rank + -en (verbal suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From rank + -en (verbal suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rankens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rankening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rankened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rankened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ranken (third-person singular simple present rankens, present participle rankening, simple past and past participle rankened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History, page 299",
          "text": "In a word, it is good for nothing but to despatch men out of the world that are burdensome, and to ranken churchyards.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Nelson C. Nye, Trigger Talk/the Wolf That Rode, page 202",
          "text": "His glance passed again over the patched-up rigs and spavined horses dejectedly standing in this rain-rankened muck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Annie Proulx, Postcards, page 257",
          "text": "The room smoked with cold. Smoke rankened the air.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or become rank"
      ],
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          "intransitive",
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          "rank"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become rank"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ranken"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rank",
        "3": "-en",
        "id2": "inchoative",
        "pos2": "verbal suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "rank + -en (verbal suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From rank + -en (verbal suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rankens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rankening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rankened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rankened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ranken (third-person singular simple present rankens, present participle rankening, simple past and past participle rankened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English intransitive verbs",
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        "English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History, page 299",
          "text": "In a word, it is good for nothing but to despatch men out of the world that are burdensome, and to ranken churchyards.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Nelson C. Nye, Trigger Talk/the Wolf That Rode, page 202",
          "text": "His glance passed again over the patched-up rigs and spavined horses dejectedly standing in this rain-rankened muck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Annie Proulx, Postcards, page 257",
          "text": "The room smoked with cold. Smoke rankened the air.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or become rank"
      ],
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          "transitive",
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          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become rank"
      ],
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        "intransitive",
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  "word": "ranken"
}