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crevice

[ krev-is ]

noun

  1. a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.


crevice

/ ˈkrɛvɪs /

noun

  1. a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft


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  • creviced adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of crevice1

1300–50; Middle English crevace < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to crev ( er ) to crack (< Latin crepāre ) + -ace noun suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of crevice1

C14: from Old French crevace, from crever to burst, from Latin crepāre to crack

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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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