verb
- Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only.
- usage: "The glass cracked when it was heated"
- Make a very sharp explosive sound.
- usage: "His gun cracked"
- synonyms: crack
- Make a sharp sound.
- usage: "his fingers snapped"
- Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise.
- usage: "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
- synonyms: crack
- Pass through (a barrier. )
- usage: "Registrations cracked through the 30, 000 mark in the county"
- synonyms: break through, crack
- Break partially but keep its integrity.
- usage: "The glass cracked"
- synonyms: crack
- Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension.
- usage: "The pipe snapped"
- Gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions.
- usage: "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"
- synonyms: crack
- Suffer a nervous breakdown.
- Tell spontaneously.
- usage: "crack a joke"
- synonyms: crack
- Cause to become cracked.
- usage: "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
- synonyms: crack
- Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.
- synonyms: crack
- Break into simpler molecules by means of heat.
- usage: "The petroleum cracked"
- synonyms: crack
adjective
- Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure.
- usage: "chapped lips"
- Of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide.
- synonyms: alligatored
- Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
- usage: "it used to drive my husband balmy"
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