Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
- 2transitive verb
To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
- 4transitive verb
To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
- 5transitive verb
To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
- 6intransitive verb
To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
- 7intransitive verb
To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
- 8intransitive verb
To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
- 9intransitive verb
To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- 14noun
Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
- 15noun
A crazy or crack-brained person.
- 16noun
A boast; boasting.
- 17noun
Breach of chastity.
- 18noun
A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
- 19noun
A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
- 20noun
Free conversation; friendly chat.
- 21adjective
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
- 22noun
the act of cracking something
- 23noun
a usually brief attempt
"he took a crack at it"
"I gave it a whirl"
- 24noun
a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
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- 25noun
a narrow opening
"he opened the window a crack"
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- 26noun
a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
"there was a crack in the mirror"
- 27noun
witty remark
- 28noun
a sudden sharp noise
"the crack of a whip"
"he heard the cracking of the ice"
- 29noun
a long narrow opening
- 30noun
a long narrow depression in a surface
- 31noun
a chance to do something
"he wanted a shot at the champion"
Synonyms
- 32verb
break into simpler molecules by means of heat
"The petroleum cracked"
- 33verb
reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- 34verb
become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
"The glass cracked when it was heated"
- 35verb
cause to become cracked
"heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
- 36verb
break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
"The pipe snapped"
Synonyms
- 37verb
break partially but keep its integrity
"The glass cracked"
- 38verb
pass through (a barrier)
"Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
- 39verb
tell spontaneously
"crack a joke"
- 40verb
hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
"The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
- 41verb
suffer a nervous breakdown
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- 42verb
make a sharp sound
"his fingers snapped"
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- 43verb
make a very sharp explosive sound
"His gun cracked"
- 44verb
gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
"she cracked my password"
"crack a safe"
- 45adjective
of the highest quality
"an ace reporter"
"a crack shot"
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