cracked
broken: a container full of cracked ice.
broken without separation of parts; fissured.
damaged; injured.
Informal. eccentric; mad; daffy: a charming person, but a bit cracked.
broken in tone, as the voice.
Idioms about cracked
cracked up to be, Informal. reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative): I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.
Origin of cracked
1Other words from cracked
- un·cracked, adjective
Words Nearby cracked
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How to use cracked in a sentence
This area of your face dries out easily and can become raw and cracked.
Best beard product for the best beard of your life | Florie Korani | August 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt made a nuclear mess in the Antarctic, with 438 malfunctions in 10 years including a cracked and leaking containment vessel.
The US military’s first experiment with portable nuclear reactors was short and tragic | Purbita Saha | July 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceMaybe that’s why this call was more difficult and I ended up saying goodbye to my father with a cracked voice and wet eyes.
Locked up in the Land of Liberty: Part III | Yariel Valdés González | July 21, 2021 | Washington BladeJust two days before the collapse, a pool contractor was so alarmed that he documented cracked concrete and corroded, exposed rebar in the garage, according to the Miami Herald.
Miami Is Used to Disasters. The Surfside Collapse Felt Different | Vera Bergengruen / Surfside, Florida | June 29, 2021 | TimeBefore you crawl into your sleeping bag, slather cracked fingers and crusty knees with this extra-thick balm.
Trying The Macallan for the first time cracked it wide open for me in terms of how special whisky could be.
A Whisky Connoisseur Remembers That First Sip of The Macallan | | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTuring conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero | Clive Irving | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWorking with him, too, he cracked up a couple of times with what I was doing in the scene-work.
How Carrie Preston Became The Good Wife’s Favorite Scene Stealer | Kevin Fallon | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then it really cracked us up that it was the mental institution that made them the monsters we know and love.
Inside the Mind of ‘The League’s Rafi: Jason Mantzoukas and Seth Rogen on TV’s Craziest Dude | Marlow Stern | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInserting my key into the lock, I had just cracked the door open when a face appeared in the window.
Inside a Hospital for the Criminally Insane | Caitlin Dickson | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIn his cracked old voice, he still paid his Grandisonian compliments to the two ladies.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsJust as I got there, he made it to his feet somehow and cracked their heads together exactly hard enough to bring peace.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeDonny recognized the high, cracked, pathetic tones which had addressed him at the station.
A Lost Hero | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. WardThen a branch cracked sharply outside, and Watch barked out loud.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
British Dictionary definitions for cracked
/ (krækt) /
damaged by cracking
informal crazy
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