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crevice
[ krev-is ]
noun
- a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.
crevice
/ ˈkrɛvɪs /
noun
- a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft
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- creviced adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crevice1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crevice1
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Example Sentences
The critique extends into nearly every little crevice and lacuna of our civic life.
We will pull back the onion and explore every crack and crevice.
If I Can Dream pushes the ties of interactivity at the molecular level into every crevice of its stars' lives.
I plucked them from the crevice, hoping not to find a bent temple.
His foot caught; it is unknown in what,—in a twisted tie, or perhaps in a crevice of the cracking earth.
A glimpse of daylight penetrated through a crevice in the rock, and on fine nights one could see the stars.
In the deep, following silence each knew that old Mata's ear felt, like a hand, at the crevice of the shoji.
The stone walls of houses were cracked; one of the "mansions" had a zigzag crevice from top to bottom.
He removed the bar of the door and through the crevice sounded his terrible war-cry, the scream of a panther.
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