Lank

//læŋk//

Synonyms for "lank" (55 found)

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Translations

20 translations across 10 languages.

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Afrikaans

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  • slank adj (slender and thin)

Bulgarian

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  • права adj (of hair straight and flat)
  • слаб и висок adj (slender and thin)

Czech

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  • hubený adj (slender and thin)
  • vyhublý adj (slender and thin)
  • vyzáblý adj (slender and thin)
  • zplihlý adj (of hair straight and flat)

Finnish

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  • hintelä adj (slender and thin)
  • laiha adj (slender and thin)

French

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  • plats adj (of hair straight and flat)

Hungarian

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  • vézna adj (slender and thin)
  • vézna adj (slender and thin)

Māori

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  • mahora adj (of hair straight and flat)
  • torokaka adj (of hair straight and flat)
  • torokaka waero-kiore adj (of hair straight and flat)
  • tākaha adj (of hair straight and flat)

Occitan

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  • delgat adj (slender and thin)

Persian

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  • لندوک adj (slender and thin)

Spanish

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  • delgado adj (slender and thin)
  • flaco adj (slender and thin)

Sample sentences

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Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o’erteemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;

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1700, Isaac Barrow, Sermon XXII “Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars,” in The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D., London: John Tillotson, 2nd edition, Volume III, p. 226, […] who would not chuse […] to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain […] ?

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1724-5, Jonathan Swift, “A Receipt. To Restore Stella’s Youth” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Henry Washbourne, 1841, Volume 1, p. 687, Meagre and lank with fasting grown, And nothing left but skin and bone;

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The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.

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