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[ krakt ] / krækt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cracked ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivebroken: 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. Idioms for crackedcracked 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.
Origin of crackedFirst recorded in 1400–50, cracked is from the late Middle English word crachyd.See crack, -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM crackedun·cracked, adjectiveWords nearby crackedcrackberry, crackbrain, crackbrained, crack cocaine, crackdown, cracked, cracked heel, cracked heels, cracked up, cracked wheat, cracker Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for crackedTuring conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code. The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero|Clive Irving|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Working with him, too, he cracked up a couple of times with what I was doing in the scene-work. How Carrie Preston Became The Good Wife’s Favorite Scene Stealer|Kevin Fallon|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Inserting my key into the lock, I had just cracked the door open when a face appeared in the window. Inside a Hospital for the Criminally Insane|Caitlin Dickson|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST Talks are deadlocked and the government has cracked down violently on the demonstrators. Obama’s ‘Yemen Model’ for the War on ISIS Is a Wreck|Shuaib Almosawa|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cruz cracked jokes that had been borrowed from Jay Leno and boasted of all that conservatives had somehow achieved despite Obama. Rick Santorum Is Kinda Coming Back for 2016|Ben Jacobs|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Confused and feeling guilty, he stumbled over to it and answered the call in a cracked, sleepy voice. Beginners Luck|Emily Hahn It did really seem as if it cracked, because her lips had been set in such a tight line. Jewel's Story Book|Clara Louise Burnham The drought had not brought down the leaves nor cracked the surface. The New Gulliver and Other Stories|Barry Pain Just then a little snarly headed boy came in with two pennies and a cracked plate, "to buy some butther." Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends|Fanny Fern When they are cracked by end to end crackers, the shell and kernel drop free. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting|Northern Nut Growers Association
British Dictionary definitions for cracked
adjectivedamaged by cracking informal crazy Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to crackedbroken, damaged, fractured, crazed, split |