‘Sinclair cranks up the tension until it's almost unbearable.’ ‘American conservatives crank up the heat on issues like abortion and drug abuse.’ ‘A common mistake is to crank up the heat in an attempt to dry things out.’ ‘I cranked up the speed and spent the next hour and a. 11 synonyms of crank (up) from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 33 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Find another word for crank (up). Crank (up): to cause to function.

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crank

(krăngk)v.tr.1. v.intr.adj.

Drug slang A regional street name for methamphetamine, amphetamine, or methcathinone
Science Maverick theorist. Crank is to a scientist what quack is to a doctor and shyster is to a lawyer

crank

(krănk)
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(third-person singular simple presentcranks up, present participlecranking up, simple past and past participlecranked up)

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1. To start something mechanical, an act that often used to involve cranking.

   Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin.

2. (idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.

   He cranked up the volume to 11.

   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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.

3. To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
   • 2003, Chris Jenks, Transgression:

     Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?

   • 2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 66:

     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.

   • 2013, Alistair Moffat, ‎Susan Mansfield, ‎Alexander Smith, The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece:

     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.

Translations[edit]

Finnish: käynnistää(fi) German: ankurbeln(de)

Russian: заводить(ru)impf(zavoditʹ) Spanish: arrancar(es)

Finnish: vääntää nupit kaakkoon French: monter(fr)

Russian: (pribavitʹ zvuka), (sdelatʹ na vsju katušku)(used for the volume), поднять(ru)(podnjatʹ), поднапрячь(ru)(podnaprjačʹ), поднапрячься(ru)(podnaprjačʹsja), (used for human energy or effort), зажигать(ru)(zažigatʹ)(used with figurative meaning of having a riot) Spanish: aumentar(es), subir(es)