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CRACKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Example:
it used to drive my husband balmy
Synonyms:
around the bend; balmy; barmy; bats; batty; bonkers; buggy; cracked; crackers; daft; dotty; fruity; haywire; kookie; kooky; loco; loony; loopy; nuts; nutty; round the bend; wacky; whacky
Classified under:
Similar:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
Synonyms:
alligatored; cracked
Classified under:
Similar:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
Example:
chapped lips
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb crack
Context examples:
But behind him was Dave, likewise straining backward, and behind the sled was François, pulling till his tendons cracked.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Our lips were dry and cracked, nor could we longer moisten them with our tongues.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
These he cracked between his strong white teeth and chewed in a leisurely way, casting the shells into the blaze.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Symptoms include itching, burning, and cracked, scaly skin between your toes.
(Athlete's Foot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Some moons around the gas giant planets in the outer solar system have cracked surfaces with evidence for ocean interiors – Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus are two examples.
(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)
Veins such as these form where fluids move through cracked rock and deposit minerals in the fractures, often affecting the chemistry of the rock surrounding the fractures.
(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)
"He is considerably cracked in his head, and that makes him foolish."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
A gun cracked among the rocks to the right, and Negore heard the war-yell of all his tribe, and for an instant saw the rocks and bushes bristle alive with his kinfolk.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The jibs behind me cracked aloud, the rudder slammed to, the whole ship gave a sickening heave and shudder, and at the same moment the main-boom swung inboard, the sheet groaning in the blocks, and showed me the lee after-deck.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
How vividly I call to mind the damp about the house, the green cracked flagstones in the court, an old leaky water-butt, and the discoloured trunks of some of the grim trees, which seemed to have dripped more in the rain than other trees, and to have blown less in the sun!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
