adjective
used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
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- chapped lips
adjective
of paint or varnish
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alligatored
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- having the appearance of alligator hide
adjective
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
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- it used to drive my husband balmy
verb
become fractured
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- break or crack on the surface only
- The glass cracked when it was heated
verb
make a very sharp explosive sound
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- His gun cracked
verb
make a sharp sound
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- his fingers snapped
verb
hit forcefully
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- deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler
verb
pass through (a barrier)
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- Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county
verb
break partially but keep its integrity
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- The glass cracked
verb
break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
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- The pipe snapped
verb
gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
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- she cracked my password
- crack a safe
verb
suffer a nervous breakdown
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verb
tell spontaneously
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- crack a joke
verb
cause to become cracked
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- heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair
verb
reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
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verb
break into simpler molecules by means of heat
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- The petroleum cracked