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View definitions for cracking

cracking

adjective as in breaking

adjective as in fantastic

adjective as in smart

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Example Sentences

For free speech, but the cracking of skulls if it comes to it.

That in turn would help prevent cracking, which often occurs when the exterior of a piece of wood dries out faster than the interior.

You have things like no sewer pipes and other things that are greasy and cracking.

One chiro I follow adjusts baby spines, slowly, carefully, with basically no audible cracking.

The party that controls the maps can grab power through packing or cracking.

The Communist Party of China gets a bad rap for cracking down on religion.

Protestors say the president is cracking down on free speech.

It was a street-sweep, and violence had broken out, and the government was cracking down.

For a country forever cracking down on those perceived as veering from the sexual norm, being gay is finally starting to pay.

The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games.

His foot caught; it is unknown in what,—in a twisted tie, or perhaps in a crevice of the cracking earth.

Along the shore they sped, speaking not a word till they had got the village in sight and their arms were cracking in the joints.

After waiting long, the hunters heard high above them a cracking, rushing sound; and suddenly they saw a great, hovering object.

"Up to sixteen thousand tons," Darrin replied, without cracking a smile.

Neither did his ears hear at first a low muffled cracking that had been going on for some time.

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On this page you'll find 303 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cracking, such as: collapsing, crumbling, fracturing, shattering, smashing, and splintering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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