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Definition of cracked in English: crackedadjective kraktkrækt 1Damaged and showing lines on the surface from having split without coming apart. the old pipes were cracked and leaking Example sentencesExamples - He said the cracked vertebrae had no direct bearing on the cause of death.
- He made his way along the hallway, which was lined with cracked, white wallpaper.
- Then, when the sun finally comes out and the soil dries, it forms a hard, cracked surface.
- ‘They were replaced as many of them were broken, cracked or lifted,’ he said.
- David heard several cracks that he knew meant only one thing, cracked ribs.
- But members highlighted the need for more modern wash basins and toilets, as some were cracked or broken.
- The sun's rays filtered in through the open windows and the cracked windshield.
- Shaking his head and squinting through the cracked windshield, his voice rose.
- Her eyes suddenly trailed to a line of smeared blood upon the cracked surface of the marble floor.
- His cracked and toughened face split wide in a grin.
- She gradually slowed down until she was stumbling along the cracked pavement amongst other pedestrians.
- Then she looked over her shoulder through the cracked mirror… and screamed.
- In more advanced cases, fish net-like cracks resembling the fine fracture lines of cracked porcelain can occur.
- The standing stones are weather-beaten and cracked, but they remain nevertheless.
- One of your motor mounts might be broken or cracked.
- Much of the trail system surface had become very cracked.
- She set the brush down, taking a glance at herself in the cracked mirror.
- A soft wind blew through my hair as I stepped on the cracked pavement.
- No one but Mark heard it, but Mark was pretty sure he had just received a slightly cracked rib.
- Irony belongs with those loose pebbles by the road and the occasional cracked windshield.
Synonyms split, broken, fissured, fractured, ruptured, splintered, cleft, slit damaged, defective, flawed, imperfect rare crazed - 1.1 (of a person's voice) having an unusual harshness or pitch, especially through strain.
her voice emerged, cracked, from a throat tight with dread the captain was screaming orders in a cracked baritone Example sentencesExamples - A cracked, harsh voice suddenly speaks out of the darkness, conveying all the desolation of Mars.
- What this gentle veteran wants most, he tells me in a cracked voice, is a nice holiday.
- He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice.
- Among the aspiring singers were those with cracked voices, nasal tones, and lisps.
- He replied to the man in a soft, cracked voice, and suddenly felt grief and regret take him.
- There is a long silence before he slowly says, in his cracked and pained voice; ‘There was one.’
- I tried to keep the nervous hint out of my voice but my voice came out kind of cracked.
- He looked about the room before beginning to speak in a broken and cracked voice.
- ‘I don't have the strength to sit up, kid,’ he said in a dry, cracked voice.
- Her voice is cracked - she is often caught gasping hard - but even today there is a certain unique charm in Leela's voice.
- Dennis, with his cracked and gravelly voice, didn't even sound like a Beach Boy.
- I began to play and sang along though my cracked voice.
- ‘Oh, child, come away from there,’ admonished a cracked, though not unkindly voice.
- He turned up the volume as a cracked voice began to pop on and off as he fiddled with the control board.
- He retracted his arms from around her shoulders in hearing her cracked voice.
- Wendy affected an old, cracked voice as she padded into the bathroom.
- Someone was cackling into the other end of the phone and then a dry, cracked voice began to speak.
- ‘Lexi wants you and Mike to come out to the common room after dinner,’ his cracked voice replied.
Synonyms rough, harsh, croaky, croaking, throaty, gruff, husky, guttural, gravelly, growly, grating, rasping, raucous
2informal predicative Crazy; insane. you must think my family are cracked Example sentencesExamples - I suspect I looked a bit cracked but didn't care.
Synonyms mad, insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth Definition of cracked in US English: crackedadjectivekraktkrækt 1Damaged and showing lines on the surface from having split without coming apart. the old pipes were cracked and leaking Example sentencesExamples - One of your motor mounts might be broken or cracked.
- Then, when the sun finally comes out and the soil dries, it forms a hard, cracked surface.
- Irony belongs with those loose pebbles by the road and the occasional cracked windshield.
- She gradually slowed down until she was stumbling along the cracked pavement amongst other pedestrians.
- But members highlighted the need for more modern wash basins and toilets, as some were cracked or broken.
- His cracked and toughened face split wide in a grin.
- David heard several cracks that he knew meant only one thing, cracked ribs.
- He said the cracked vertebrae had no direct bearing on the cause of death.
- Then she looked over her shoulder through the cracked mirror… and screamed.
- No one but Mark heard it, but Mark was pretty sure he had just received a slightly cracked rib.
- Her eyes suddenly trailed to a line of smeared blood upon the cracked surface of the marble floor.
- The sun's rays filtered in through the open windows and the cracked windshield.
- She set the brush down, taking a glance at herself in the cracked mirror.
- In more advanced cases, fish net-like cracks resembling the fine fracture lines of cracked porcelain can occur.
- The standing stones are weather-beaten and cracked, but they remain nevertheless.
- A soft wind blew through my hair as I stepped on the cracked pavement.
- ‘They were replaced as many of them were broken, cracked or lifted,’ he said.
- Much of the trail system surface had become very cracked.
- He made his way along the hallway, which was lined with cracked, white wallpaper.
- Shaking his head and squinting through the cracked windshield, his voice rose.
Synonyms split, broken, fissured, fractured, ruptured, splintered, cleft, slit - 1.1 (of a person's voice) having an unusual harshness or pitch, often due to distress.
Example sentencesExamples - Her voice is cracked - she is often caught gasping hard - but even today there is a certain unique charm in Leela's voice.
- A cracked, harsh voice suddenly speaks out of the darkness, conveying all the desolation of Mars.
- ‘I don't have the strength to sit up, kid,’ he said in a dry, cracked voice.
- He turned up the volume as a cracked voice began to pop on and off as he fiddled with the control board.
- Among the aspiring singers were those with cracked voices, nasal tones, and lisps.
- ‘Oh, child, come away from there,’ admonished a cracked, though not unkindly voice.
- Someone was cackling into the other end of the phone and then a dry, cracked voice began to speak.
- ‘Lexi wants you and Mike to come out to the common room after dinner,’ his cracked voice replied.
- He retracted his arms from around her shoulders in hearing her cracked voice.
- There is a long silence before he slowly says, in his cracked and pained voice; ‘There was one.’
- Dennis, with his cracked and gravelly voice, didn't even sound like a Beach Boy.
- He looked about the room before beginning to speak in a broken and cracked voice.
- Wendy affected an old, cracked voice as she padded into the bathroom.
- What this gentle veteran wants most, he tells me in a cracked voice, is a nice holiday.
- He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice.
- He replied to the man in a soft, cracked voice, and suddenly felt grief and regret take him.
- I began to play and sang along though my cracked voice.
- I tried to keep the nervous hint out of my voice but my voice came out kind of cracked.
Synonyms rough, harsh, croaky, croaking, throaty, gruff, husky, guttural, gravelly, growly, grating, rasping, raucous
2informal predicative Crazy; insane. you must think my family is cracked Example sentencesExamples - I suspect I looked a bit cracked but didn't care.
Synonyms mad, insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth |