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crack
English
- 🔊 of the highest quality“an ace reporter”
- 🔊 a usually brief attempt“he took a crack at it”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 a long narrow opening
- 🔊 the act of cracking something
- 🔊 a narrow opening“he opened the window a crack”
- 🔊 witty remark
- 🔊 a chance to do something“he wanted a shot at the champion”
- 🔊 a long narrow depression in a surface
- 🔊 break into simpler molecules by means of heat“The petroleum cracked”
- 🔊 reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- 🔊 become fractured“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“The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler”
- 🔊 make a very sharp explosive sound“His gun cracked”
- 🔊 gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions“she cracked my password”
- 🔊 break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension“The pipe snapped”
- 🔊 pass through (a barrier)“Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county”
- 🔊 suffer a nervous breakdown
- 🔊 make a sharp sound“his fingers snapped”
Spanish
- 🔊 crujido crack
- 🔊 quiebra crack
- 🔊 rajadura crack
- 🔊 rendija crack
- 🔊 risco crack
- 🔊 crackear to crack
- 🔊 resquebrajar to crack
- 🔊 crac crack, snap
- 🔊 trallazo crack, crackle
- 🔊 cascar to crack, to split
- 🔊 cuartear to crack, crack up
- 🔊 tronchar to crack, to split
- 🔊 estampido crack, bang (noise)
- 🔊 grieta crack, chink, crevice
- 🔊 cuetear to crack, bang, pop (making sudden percussive noise)
- 🔊 abrir to crack, crack open, to pop (e.g., a safe, a bottle, a coconut)
- 🔊 quebrar to crack, to break (e.g. crack under pressure, break after interrogation)
- 🔊 quebrar to crack, to break, to shatter (putting the onus on the thing cracking itself, absolving any sentient subject of responsibility)