crack

crack is a 5-letter English word with 45 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 45 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. transitive verb. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
3. transitive verb. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
4. transitive verb. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
5. transitive verb. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
6. intransitive verb. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
7. intransitive verb. To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
8. intransitive verb. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
9. intransitive verb. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
10. noun. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
11. noun. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
12. noun. A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
13. noun. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
14. noun. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
15. noun. A crazy or crack-brained person.
16. noun. A boast; boasting.
17. noun. Breach of chastity.
18. noun. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
19. noun. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
20. noun. Free conversation; friendly chat.
21. adjective. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
22. noun. the act of cracking something

    Synonyms: cracking, fracture

23. noun. a usually brief attempt

    "he took a crack at it"

    "I gave it a whirl"

    Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl

24. noun. a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

    Synonyms: tornado

25. noun. a narrow opening

    "he opened the window a crack"

    Synonyms: gap

26. noun. a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts

    "there was a crack in the mirror"

27. noun. witty remark

    Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack

28. noun. a sudden sharp noise

    "the crack of a whip"

    "he heard the cracking of the ice"

    Synonyms: cracking, snap

29. noun. a long narrow opening

    Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure

30. noun. a long narrow depression in a surface

    Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure

31. noun. a chance to do something

    "he wanted a shot at the champion"

    Synonyms: shot

32. verb. break into simpler molecules by means of heat

    "The petroleum cracked"

33. verb. reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
34. verb. become fractured; break or crack on the surface only

    "The glass cracked when it was heated"

    Synonyms: break, check

35. verb. cause to become cracked

    "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"

36. verb. break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension

    "The pipe snapped"

    Synonyms: snap

37. verb. break partially but keep its integrity

    "The glass cracked"

38. verb. pass through (a barrier)

    "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

39. verb. tell spontaneously

    "crack a joke"

40. verb. hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise

    "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"

41. verb. suffer a nervous breakdown

    Synonyms: collapse

42. verb. make a sharp sound

    "his fingers snapped"

    Synonyms: snap

43. verb. make a very sharp explosive sound

    "His gun cracked"

44. verb. gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions

    "she cracked my password"

    "crack a safe"

45. adjective. of the highest quality

    "an ace reporter"

    "a crack shot"

    Synonyms: ace, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops

Synonyms

cracking, fracture, fling, go, offer, pass, whirl, tornado, gap, quip, sally, wisecrack, snap, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure, chap, cranny, shot, break, check, collapse, ace

Common word forms

cracks, cracked, cracker, crackly, cracking, crackable, crackless

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