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Crepitate

To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

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Rattle 76% connected

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

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Crackle 74% connected

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Crackle 74% connected

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

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Crackling 74% connected

The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

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Crackling 74% connected

The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

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Crackle 92% connected

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Brustle verb · 78% connection

To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.

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Burden noun · 78% connection

The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often re…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Burning noun · 78% connection

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

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Burnt p. p. & a. · 78% connection

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

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Chattering noun · 78% connection

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the…

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Corn verb · 78% connection

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or…

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Crackleware noun · 78% connection

See Crackle, n., 3.

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Dash verb · 78% connection

To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

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Decrepitate verb · 78% connection

To crackle, as salt in roasting.

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Deflagrable adjective · 78% connection

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

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Deflagrate verb · 78% connection

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

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Dingdong noun · 78% connection

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

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Fire verb · 78% connection

To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.

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Hurtle verb · 78% connection

To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.

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Igneous adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.

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Interpolate verb · 78% connection

To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a part…

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Law of effect noun · 78% connection

(psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated w…

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