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Wikipedia
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Cracked is a Scottish comedy drama, which was broadcast on STV . Created and written by Clare Hemphill and Kate Donnelly, the drama series is set in a Scottish countryside residential rehab clinic, a place where people with various mental and emotional ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface. 2 Broken into coarse pieces. 3 (context of a voice English) harsh or dissonant. 4 (context slang English) crazy; crackpot. v (en-past of: crack )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cracked...whip ▪ The coachman cracked his whip and the carriage lurched forward. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES sth is not all/everything it's cracked up to be EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A cracked tile spoiled the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., past participle adjective from crack (v). Meaning "mentally unsound" is 17c. (compare crack-brain "crazy fellow"). The equivalent Greek word was used in this sense by Aristophanes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged . [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips" [syn: chapped , roughened ] broken without being divided into parts but having fissures appear on the surface; "a cracked mirror" of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator ...
Usage examples of cracked.
Then I suffered a vision of Acer Laidlaw piloting Eightball back to Roderick Station with a hold full of atoms that had once been mine, and gritted my teeth so hard I cracked a filling.
Andrea went off without answering him, laughing at the acumen still left to this cracked wit.
He had the advantage of owning an excellent network of reporters of transgressions, for he enlisted Lucius Decumius and his crossroads brethren as informers, and cracked down very hard on merchants who weighed light or measured short, on builders who infringed boundaries or used poor materials, on landlords who had cheated the water companies by inserting bigger-bore adjutage pipes from the mains into their properties than the law prescribed.
Before she could say anything, however, Alise sat up in bed and cracked her head on the low ceiling.
A patch of ocher plaster on the wall opposite the window was cracked in a spiderweb pattern, and in the center of the web stood an arbalest bolt.
In the corner was a big cracked Chinese pot containing an aspidistra plant.
A wooden brace somewhere below deck cracked audibly, but both runners held.
Woen, Tiw, and Donar were cracked and gray, begrown with moss and toadstools.
The illithids fought back even harder with their mental powers, finally backing the pair up against one cracked pillar outside the beholder ruins.
Though its paint was cracked and peeling, the device it bore showed plain: a black bat on a field divided bendwise, silver and gold.
Reluctantly Bling led them down a dim concrete stairwell to a cracked wooden door in the cellar.
Dark lightning cracked as the Boaster arm split from its counterweight, toppled over the eastern edge of the Key, and fell forward, landing with thunder and hissing, cleaving water.
Captain Breakstone laced his fingers together and cracked his knuckles.
Little Ivan it was, anxiously searching the back-alley bars, who found Buffo still on his feet, though wavering, and led him back to Clown Alley, there to settle him on an upturned stool before a rectangle of cracked mirrors, where Buffo flailed about, wriggled, moaned and struggled to prevent Grik and Grok repairing the ravages his debauch had made upon his make-up.
But the crates were cracked open, the dollies burdenless, the torpedo racks bare.