to crook
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5.6
- verb
- /krʊk/
:
doblar
- The Kommander turns around and crooks a finger.
- crook your finger
- crook your head
- crook your arm
Examples
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Then the finger crooks once in a summoning gesture.
Fiction book (2000) -
And she summoned me to her by crooking her finger.
Fiction book (1991) -
Crooking her neck, she tried to watch an individual sheet of water fall all the way.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sunlight crooks across the water's surface, and shadows swim the face of the hills opposite.
Fiction book (2000) -
When the skeletal man crooks his finger and rattles his keys, I shall dawdle and smell just one more flower.
Fiction book (1994) -
He had a habit of crooking his finger at me and saying, sonorously, "I would have words with you" -- a courteous locution.
Academic text (2005) -
Carefully, crooking his elbows, he laid his head down beside Peg on the soft moss and looked up through the ancient branches, trying to see the midday stars.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Crooking her finger, Persephone led Aria from the throne room, guiding her down a wide winding stairway toward the hall below.
Fiction book (2002) -
He braces one hand against the tree, crooks a knee, stretches the other leg behind, and bends cautiously forward and down and down some more.
Fiction book (2000) -
He tried to crook his finger to get her attention.
Synonyms
268
1.0
To make something curved instead of straight
173
1.1
To form into a curved or spiral shape
152
2.2
To turn a joint or part of your body so it becomes injured
22
2.8
To bend into a smooth, rounded shape
17
3.2
To curve under pressure, like a branch or metal
3
5.4
To make a rope, wire or hose bend sharply
To lean or bend in one direction, often slowly under extra weight
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Etymology
Crook comes from an old Norse word krókr that means 'hook', so to crook something is to bend it into a hooked shape, like when you crook your arm or finger.