noun
a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
noun
an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
adjective
very fertile
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- producing profuse growth
- rank earth
adjective
very offensive in smell or taste
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- a rank cigar
adjective
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
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- a crying shame
- an egregious lie
- flagrant violation of human rights
- a glaring error
- gross ineptitude
- gross injustice
- rank treachery
adjective
complete and without restriction or qualification
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- sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- 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
adjective
growing profusely
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- rank jungle vegetation