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cracked
[ krakt ]
adjective
- broken:
a container full of cracked ice.
- broken without separation of parts; fissured.
- damaged; injured.
- Informal. eccentric; mad; daffy:
a charming person, but a bit cracked.
- broken in tone, as the voice.
cracked
/ æ /
adjective
- damaged by cracking
- informal.crazy
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- cracked up to be, Informal. reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative):
I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.
Example Sentences
The windscreen of the vehicle being filmed from is cracked and shooting can then be heard lasting for several minutes as the person filming says prayers.
But the truth was detectives had, finally, cracked a cold case that had lingered unsolved on the books of Cheshire Police for 25 years.
As air pressure in the chamber decreased, the air inside the teacakes expanded until the chocolate cracked and the mallow filling puffed out.
On her last tour, Amos broke a toe and a leg and cracked a rib.
When the system was cracked by law enforcement agencies it showed Saunderson was involved in drug trafficking.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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