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crackle
crackle is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 10 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
- 2noun
The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
- 3noun
A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
- 4noun
A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
- 5noun
glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
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- 6noun
the sharp sound of snapping noises
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- 7verb
to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
"The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
- 8verb
make a crushing noise
"his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
- 9verb
make a crackling sound
"My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl"
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- 10adjective
having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
"a crackle glaze"
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