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Verb: crank up
  1. Start by cranking
    "crank up the engine";
    - crank
     
  2. Rotate with a crank
    "The child cranked up the jack-in-the-box toy";
    - crank

Derived forms: cranks up, cranking up, cranked up

Type of: circumvolve, rotate, start, start up