thank

present (v1)

thank

past (v2)

thanked

past participle (v3)

thanked

present participle

thanking

3rd person singular

thanks

1. 1.To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).

   • I can eate no meate, I thanke you.
   • She thanked him for the lift.
   • We were able to transport goods and critical workers all the way through the pandemic, and at the time we had the Prime Minister thanking everyone for what was achieved.

2. 2.To respond to (someone) out of, or as if out of, appreciation or gratitude.

   • I should summon my lord from the Queen's royal presence to do your business, should I?, I were like to be thanked with a horse-whip.

3. 3.Chiefly followed by for: to credit or hold (someone or something) responsible, especially for something negative; to blame.

   • We can thank global warming for this freak weather.

4. 4.In the future tense in the form one will thank someone to do something, chiefly expressing a command or criticism: to request that (someone) do something.

   • I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!
   • Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.

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Everyday conversation

Very common

General reading & writing

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