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English to English adjective
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Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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very fertile; producing profuse growth | | Example: rank earth
source: wordnet30
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very offensive in smell or taste | | Example: a rank cigar
source: wordnet30
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conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | | Example: a crying shame
an egregious lie
flagrant violation of human rights
a glaring error
gross ineptitude
gross injustice
rank treachery
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complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | | Example: absolute freedom
an absolute dimwit
a downright lie
out-and-out mayhem
an out-and-out lie
a rank outsider
many right-down vices
got the job through sheer persistence
sheer stupidity
source: wordnet30
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growing profusely | | Example: rank jungle vegetation
source: wordnet30 adverb
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Rankly; stoutly; violently. | | source: webster1913 noun
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a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | | Example: the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen
source: wordnet30
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relative status | | Example: his salary was determined by his rank and seniority
source: wordnet30
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the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | | Example: the strike was supported by the union rank and file
he rose from the ranks to become a colonel
source: wordnet30
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position in a social hierarchy | | Example: the British are more aware of social status than Americans are
source: wordnet30
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the body of members of an organization or group | | Example: they polled their membership
they found dissension in their own ranks
he joined the ranks of the unemployed
source: wordnet30
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A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. | | source: webster1913 verb
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take or have a position relative to others | | Example: This painting ranks among the best in the Western World
source: wordnet30
| 15 |
assign a rank or rating to | | Example: how would you rank these students?
The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
source: wordnet30
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take precedence or surpass others in rank | | source: wordnet30
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To place abreast, or in a line. | | source: webster1913
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To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. | | source: webster1913
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