flanked

Meaning of flanked

verb, past tense
  1. be on each or on one side of.
    the three defendants stood in the dock, flanked by police officers
    cherry-red sofas flanked the enormous fireplace

late Old English, from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin.

Information about flanked

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Hyphenation of flanked

flanked

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • flanked is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

flanked synonyms

Meaning provide with a border or edge:

edge

Meaning walk or run with leaping strides:

bound

Meaning stand or be positioned at intervals along:

line

Meaning form an edge along or beside (something):

border

Meaning form a border along or around (something):

fringe

Meaning be situated along or around the edge of:

skirt

Meaning be all round (someone or something):

surround

Meaning move all the way around (someone or something), especially more than once:

circle

Meaning surround (someone or something), especially for protection or containment:

ring

Meaning restrict (something) within limits:

circumscribe

Anagrams of flanked

fankled

Words that rhyme with flanked

banked, bepranked, bethanked, blanked, branked, clanked, cranked, disranked, embanked, enranked, franked, hanked, lanked, mountebanked, outflanked, outranked, outthanked, overbanked, planked, pranked, prefranked, ranked, scrimshanked, shanked, skanked, skrimshanked, spanked, swanked, tanked, thanked, unbanked, uncranked, unembanked, unflanked, unfranked, unhanked, unimbanked, unplanked, unpranked, unranked, unshanked, unspanked, unthanked, wanked, yanked, beinked, blinked, boinked, chinked, clinked

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