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Crack

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Verb group 6

Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Chink 84% connected

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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Chink 84% connected

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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Similar meaning 2

Superior 84% connected

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Superior 84% connected

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Manner of action 6

Alligator 76% connected

A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth…

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Chap 76% connected

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Chink 76% connected

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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Craze 76% connected

To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

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Fissure 76% connected

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.

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Broader term 39

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Attempt 76% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Blemish 76% connected

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Breakage 76% connected

The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

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Breaking 76% connected

of Break

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Chance 76% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Cocaine 76% connected

A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local…

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Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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Decompose 76% connected

To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring…

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Depression 76% connected

The act of depressing.

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Endeavor 76% connected

To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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Gap 76% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Imprint 76% connected

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Narrate 76% connected

To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an accou…

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Opportunity 76% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Recount 76% connected

To count or reckon again.

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Remark 76% connected

To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Sustain 76% connected

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Narrower term 16

Blank 76% connected

Of a white or pale color; without color.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chap 76% connected

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

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Chink 76% connected

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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Craze 76% connected

To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

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Crevasse 76% connected

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

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Fault 76% connected

Defect; want; lack; default.

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Faulting 76% connected

of Fault

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Fracture 76% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Lacuna 76% connected

A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

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Rift 76% connected

p. p. of Rive.

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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Slit 76% connected

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Vent 76% connected

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

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Volcano 76% connected

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popular…

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Derivationally related 18

Breach 74% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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Breach 74% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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Breakable 74% connected

Capable of being broken.

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Breakable 74% connected

Capable of being broken.

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Cleft 74% connected

of Cleave

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Cleft 74% connected

of Cleave

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Collapse 74% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Collapse 74% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Cracker 74% connected

One who, or that which, cracks.

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Cracker 74% connected

One who, or that which, cracks.

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Fracture 74% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Fracture 74% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Quip 74% connected

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

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Quip 74% connected

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

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Snap 74% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snap 74% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Synonym 26

Ace 92% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Chap 92% connected

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

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Check 92% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Cleft 92% connected

of Cleave

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Collapse 92% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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Cracking 92% connected

of Crack

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Cranny 92% connected

A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

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Crevice 92% connected

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

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First-rate 92% connected

Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.

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Fissure 92% connected

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.

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Fling 92% connected

To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

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Fracture 92% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Gap 92% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

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Offer 92% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Quip 92% connected

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

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Sally 92% connected

To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

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Scissure 92% connected

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

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Shot 92% connected

of Shoot

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Snap 92% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Super 92% connected

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

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Tiptop 92% connected

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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Tornado 92% connected

A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with s…

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Whirl 92% connected

To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

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