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crack

a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted

a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"

a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"

a long narrow opening

break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"

reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking

become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"

cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"

break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"

tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"

hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"

make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"

Synonyms:

• Daedalian,
• Parthian shot,
• above par,
• abrade,
• abrasion,
• abysm,
• abyss,
• account for,
• ace,
• address,
• adept,
• adroit,
• allegation,
• allegorize,
• alligator,
• answer,
• aperture,
• aphorism,
• apostrophe,
• apothegm,
• approach,
• apt,
• arroyo,
• artistic,
• assay,
• assertion,
• attempt,
• authoritative,
• averment,
• back answer,
• band,
• bang,
• bar,
• bark,
• bash,
• bastinado,
• bat,
• beating,
• belt,
• bezel,
• bid,
• biff,
• birthmark,
• bit,
• blackhead,
• blast,
• blaze,
• bleb,
• blemish,
• blister,
• bloody,
• blow,
• bon mot,
• bonk,
• boom,
• bottom,
• boutade,
• bowshot,
• box canyon,
• brand,
• bravura,
• breach,
• break,
• break open,
• break up,
• breakage,
• breath,
• breathing,
• brief span,
• bright idea,
• bright thought,
• brilliant,
• brilliant idea,
• broach,
• broaching,
• bug,
• bulla,
• bump,
• burn,
• burn in,
• burn off,
• burst,
• bust,
• canal,
• canalize,
• canyon,
• carve,
• cast,
• catch,
• caustic remark,
• cauterize,
• cavity,
• chafe,
• chamfer,
• channel,
• chap,
• char,
• chase,
• chasm,
• check,
• chimney,
• chink,
• chip,
• chisel,
• chop,
• cicatrix,
• cicatrize,
• clack,
• clap,
• clarify,
• clash,
• claw,
• clean,
• clear up,
• clearing,
• cleave,
• cleft,
• cleuch,
• clever,
• click,
• clip,
• clobber,
• close quarters,
• close range,
• clough,
• clout,
• clump,
• coal,
• col,
• coldcock,
• come apart,
• come unstuck,
• comeback,
• comedo,
• comment,
• conceit,
• concussion,
• coordinated,
• corrugate,
• corrugation,
• coulee,
• couloir,
• coup,
• crack,
• crack up,
• crackerjack,
• cracking,
• crackle,
• crackling,
• cranny,
• crash,
• crater,
• craze,
• crepitate,
• crepitation,
• crevasse,
• crevice,
• crimp,
• crump,
• cryptanalyze,
• cunning,
• cupel,
• cut,
• cut apart,
• cut open,
• cute,
• cutting remark,
• cwm,
• dado,
• daedal,
• dash,
• deal,
• deal a blow,
• debug,
• decipher,
• deck,
• declaration,
• decode,
• decrepitate,
• decrepitation,
• decrypt,
• deface,
• defacement,
• defect,
• defection,
• deficiency,
• defile,
• deform,
• deformation,
• deformity,
• deft,
• dell,
• demonstrate,
• demythologize,
• detonate,
• detonation,
• dexterous,
• dextrous,
• dictum,
• dig,
• dike,
• dint,
• diplomatic,
• discharge,
• disclosure,
• discontinuity,
• disentangle,
• disfiguration,
• disfigure,
• disfigurement,
• disintegrate,
• dispart,
• distort,
• distortion,
• ditch,
• divaricate,
• divide,
• divine,
• do,
• donga,
• dope,
• dope out,
• draw,
• drawback,
• drollery,
• drub,
• drubbing,
• drumming,
• dump,
• earreach,
• earshot,
• effort,
• elucidate,
• endeavor,
• engrave,
• engraving,
• enlighten,
• epigram,
• essay,
• euhemerize,
• excavation,
• excellent,
• exclamation,
• exemplify,
• exfoliate,
• experiment,
• expert,
• explain,
• explain away,
• explicate,
• explode,
• explosion,
• exposit,
• expound,
• expression,
• facetiae,
• failing,
• failure,
• fall to pieces,
• fancy,
• fathom,
• fault,
• faute,
• fenestra,
• fetch,
• fetch a blow,
• figure out,
• find out,
• find the answer,
• fissure,
• fistula,
• flame,
• flap,
• flash,
• flash burn,
• flash of wit,
• flaw,
• fleer,
• flight of wit,
• fling,
• flip,
• flop,
• flout,
• flume,
• flute,
• fluting,
• fly open,
• foible,
• fontanel,
• foolery,
• foramen,
• found,
• fracture,
• frailty,
• fray,
• frazzle,
• freckle,
• fret,
• fulminate,
• fulmination,
• furrow,
• fusillade,
• gag,
• gall,
• gambit,
• gap,
• gape,
• gash,
• gat,
• get,
• get right,
• gibe,
• gibing retort,
• give away,
• give reason for,
• give the meaning,
• give way,
• go,
• go haywire,
• go into hysterics,
• go off,
• go to pieces,
• goffer,
• good,
• goodish,
• gorge,
• gouge,
• graceful,
• greeting,
• groove,
• guess,
• guess right,
• gulch,
• gulf,
• gully,
• gunshot,
• hair,
• hair space,
• hairbreadth,
• hairsbreadth,
• half a jiffy,
• half a mo,
• half a second,
• half a shake,
• handy,
• happy thought,
• have it,
• hemangioma,
• hiatus,
• hickey,
• high-class,
• high-grade,
• high-quality,
• high-test,
• hit,
• hit a clip,
• hit it,
• hole,
• hollow,
• hurt,
• illuminate,
• illustrate,
• imperfection,
• inadequacy,
• inch,
• incise,
• incision,
• infirmity,
• ingenious,
• injure,
• injury,
• inlet,
• instant,
• interjection,
• interpret,
• interstice,
• interval,
• jab,
• jape,
• jeer,
• jest,
• jiff,
• jiffy,
• joint,
• keloid,
• kink,
• kloof,
• knock,
• knock cold,
• knock down,
• knock out,
• lacerate,
• laceration,
• lacuna,
• lay open,
• laying open,
• leak,
• leg-pull,
• lentigo,
• lesion,
• let have it,
• lick,
• list,
• little,
• little problem,
• little ways,
• lose courage,
• lose self-control,
• magisterial,
• maim,
• make clear,
• make mincemeat of,
• make out,
• make plain,
• mar,
• master,
• masterful,
• masterly,
• maul,
• mention,
• microgroove,
• microsecond,
• milium,
• millisecond,
• minute,
• moat,
• mock,
• mole,
• moment,
• mortal wound,
• mot,
• move,
• mutilate,
• mutilation,
• nasty crack,
• neat,
• needle scar,
• nevus,
• niche,
• no mean,
• notch,
• note,
• nullah,
• observation,
• offer,
• ope,
• open,
• open the lock,
• open up,
• opening,
• opening up,
• orifice,
• outlet,
• oxidate,
• oxidize,
• parch,
• part,
• parting shot,
• pass,
• passage,
• passageway,
• paste,
• pelt,
• percussion,
• persiflage,
• phrase,
• pierce,
• pimple,
• pistol shot,
• pit,
• play of wit,
• pleasantry,
• pleat,
• plow,
• plumb,
• plunk,
• pock,
• pockmark,
• poke,
• politic,
• pop,
• popularize,
• pore,
• port-wine mark,
• port-wine stain,
• position,
• potshot,
• pound,
• problem,
• professional,
• proficient,
• pronouncement,
• psych,
• psych out,
• punch,
• puncture,
• pustule,
• put-down,
• put-on,
• puzzle out,
• pyrolyze,
• question,
• quick,
• quip,
• quips and cranks,
• quite some,
• rabbet,
• rap,
• rationalize,
• ravel,
• ravel out,
• ravine,
• ready,
• reflection,
• remark,
• rend,
• rent,
• repartee,
• report,
• resolve,
• resourceful,
• retort,
• riddle,
• rifle,
• rifling,
• rift,
• rime,
• rip,
• riposte,
• rive,
• ruck,
• rude reproach,
• run,
• rupture,
• rut,
• sally,
• salvo,
• savage,
• say,
• saying,
• scab,
• scald,
• scale,
• scar,
• scarify,
• scintillation,
• scissure,
• scoff,
• scorch,
• score,
• scotch,
• scrape,
• scratch,
• scuff,
• scurrility,
• seam,
• sear,
• sebaceous cyst,
• sec,
• second,
• second-degree burn,
• sentence,
• separate,
• shake,
• shatter,
• shed light upon,
• shiver,
• short answer,
• short distance,
• short piece,
• short way,
• shortcoming,
• shot,
• show,
• show how,
• show the way,
• simplify,
• singe,
• sizzling,
• skilled,
• skillful,
• skin,
• slam,
• slap,
• slash,
• slat,
• slice,
• slick,
• slit,
• slog,
• slot,
• slug,
• smack,
• smart crack,
• smart saying,
• smash,
• smite,
• snag,
• snap,
• snapping,
• snappy comeback,
• soak,
• sock,
• solder,
• solve,
• some,
• something missing,
• sore,
• sort out,
• space,
• span,
• spell out,
• spit,
• spitting,
• spitting distance,
• splat,
• splinter,
• split,
• split second,
• splitting,
• sprain,
• spread,
• spread out,
• spring a leak,
• spring open,
• stab,
• stab wound,
• stagger,
• start,
• statement,
• statesmanlike,
• step,
• stick,
• stoma,
• strain,
• strawberry mark,
• streak,
• streaking,
• stria,
• striate,
• striation,
• striature,
• striga,
• strike,
• strike at,
• striola,
• stripe,
• striping,
• stroke,
• stroke of wit,
• strong bid,
• sty,
• stylish,
• subjoinder,
• sulcation,
• sulcus,
• superior,
• swap,
• swat,
• swing,
• swing open,
• swinge,
• swipe,
• tactful,
• taint,
• tap,
• tattoo,
• taunt,
• tear,
• tear open,
• tentative,
• the compleat,
• the complete,
• third-degree burn,
• thought,
• throw light upon,
• throw open,
• throwing open,
• thump,
• thwack,
• tick,
• time,
• torrefy,
• track,
• trauma,
• traumatize,
• trench,
• trial,
• trial and error,
• trice,
• trough,
• try,
• turn of thought,
• twink,
• twinkle,
• twinkling,
• twist,
• twit,
• twitch,
• two shakes,
• uncorking,
• undertaking,
• undo,
• unfold,
• unlock,
• unravel,
• unriddle,
• unscramble,
• unstopping,
• untangle,
• untwist,
• unweave,
• utterance,
• valley,
• verbal thrust,
• verruca,
• vesicate,
• vesicle,
• virtuoso,
• void,
• volley,
• vulcanize,
• vulnerable place,
• wadi,
• wale,
• wallop,
• warp,
• wart,
• weak link,
• weak point,
• weakness,
• weal,
• weld,
• well-done,
• well-worn groove,
• welt,
• wen,
• whack,
• wham,
• whap,
• whirl,
• whitehead,
• whomp,
• whop,
• wink,
• wisecrack,
• witticism,
• word,
• work,
• work out,
• workmanlike,
• wound,
• wounds immedicable,
• wrench,
• wrinkle,
• yak,
• yawn,
• yerk