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Cracked

adjective

1.

Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure. Synonyms: chapped, roughened.

2.

Of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide. Synonym: alligatored.

3.

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.

Crack

verb

(past & past part. cracked; pres. part. cracking)

1.

Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only. Synonyms: break, check.

2.

Make a very sharp explosive sound.

3.

Make a sharp sound. Synonym: snap.

4.

Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise.

5.

Pass through (a barrier). Synonym: break through.

6.

Break partially but keep its integrity.

7.

Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension. Synonym: snap.

8.

Gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions. "Crack a safe"

9.

Suffer a nervous breakdown. Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up.

10.

Tell spontaneously.

11.

Cause to become cracked.

12.

Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.

13.

Break into simpler molecules by means of heat.

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"Cracked" Quotes from Famous Books

... scattered. As no one gave the usual agonized yell of a prisoner when shot, we supposed the ball had not taken effect. We could hear the sentinel ramming down another cartridge, hear him "return rammer," and cock his rifle. Again the gun cracked, and again there was no sound of anybody being hit. Again we could hear the sentry churning down another cartridge. The drums began beating the long roll in the camps, and officers could be heard turning the men out. ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... The shafts of light from the machine's tube ceased; creamy liquid dribbled out from the cracked dome, and, as it met the air, frothed into billows of dense gray smoke. In seconds, the room was choked with a thick, foggy vapor that obscured every object in it as well as the blackest ...

— Raiders Invisible • Desmond Winter Hall

... took Miss Dearsley's hand in his brown, ragged, cracked paw, and kissed it—which is offence number three against the proprieties. But then you know the soldiers used to kiss ...

— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman

... the earth gan to tremble! Together they charged as if heaven would fall! First they let fly, exceedingly quick darts all as thick as the snow down falleth; stones they let afterwards sternly wind through the air. Then cracked spears; shivered spears,—helms rolled, noble men fell;—burnies brake in pieces, blood outflowed;—the fields were discoloured, standards fell! Wounded knights over all wandered over the weald, and sixty hundred there were trodden to death by horses! Knights there ...

— Brut • Layamon

... soluble in water, and which was probably made from the gum of some kind of acacia. It was not always used in the same manner. Some painters varnished the whole surface, while others merely glazed the ornaments and accessories, without touching the flesh-tints or the clothing. This varnish has cracked from the effects of age, or has become so dark as to spoil the work it was intended to preserve. Doubtless, the Egyptians discovered the bad effects produced by it, as we no longer meet with it after the close ...

— Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt • Gaston Camille Charles Maspero

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