crank up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To muster up the mental energy to do something.
verb
To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
Example Sentences
- "Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin."
- "I kept thinking: this has nothing to do with my interests, with what I believe is a desirable subject for literature. I was doing it as a performance. I kept cranking myself up to perform, to meet the demands of the genre. I know this sounds terribly inartistic."
- "He cranked up the volume to 11."
- "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."
- "Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?"
- "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."