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Crevice

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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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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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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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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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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Depression 76% connected

The act of depressing.

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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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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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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Synonym 6

Chap 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cleft 92% connected

of Cleave

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Crack 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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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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Scissure 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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