cracked
adjective
[ krakt ]
• damaged and showing lines on the surface from having split without coming apart.
• "the old pipes were cracked and leaking"
Similar:
split,
broken,
fissured,
fractured,
ruptured,
splintered,
cleft,
slit,
damaged,
defective,
flawed,
imperfect,
crazed,
• crazy; insane.
• "you must think my family are cracked"
Similar:
mad,
insane,
mentally ill,
certifiable,
deranged,
demented,
of unsound mind,
out of one's mind,
not in one's right mind,
sick in the head,
not together,
crazy,
crazed,
lunatic,
non compos mentis,
unbalanced,
unhinged,
unstable,
disturbed,
distracted,
stark mad,
manic,
frenzied,
raving,
distraught,
frantic,
hysterical,
delirious,
psychotic,
psychopathic,
mad as a hatter,
mad as a March hare,
foaming at the mouth,
sectionable,
up the pole,
mental,
off one's head,
out of one's head,
off one's nut,
nuts,
nutty,
nutty as a fruitcake,
off one's rocker,
not (quite) right in the head,
round the bend,
stark raving mad,
raving mad,
bats,
bonkers,
cuckoo,
loopy,
loony,
bananas,
loco,
dippy,
screwy,
schizoid,
touched,
gaga,
off the wall,
not all there,
not right upstairs,
barmy,
crackers,
barking,
barking mad,
stark staring mad,
batty,
dotty,
round the twist,
off one's trolley,
as daft as a brush,
not the full shilling,
away with the fairies,
buggy,
nutsy,
nutso,
out of one's tree,
meshuga,
squirrelly,
wacko,
bushed,
yarra,
porangi,
have a screw loose,
have bats in the/one's belfry,
crack
verb
• break or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts.
• "the ice all over the bog had cracked"
• make or cause to make a sudden sharp or explosive sound.
• "a shot cracked across the ridge"
Similar:
go bang,
bang,
pop,
snap,
crackle,
crash,
thud,
thump,
boom,
ring out,
clap,
explode,
detonate,
• find a solution to; decipher or interpret.
• "the code will help you crack the messages"
Similar:
solve,
find an/the answer to,
find a/the solution to,
resolve,
work out,
puzzle out,
fathom,
find the key to,
decipher,
decode,
break,
clear up,
interpret,
translate,
straighten out,
get to the bottom of,
make head or tail of,
unravel,
disentangle,
untangle,
unfold,
piece together,
elucidate,
figure out,
suss out,
• tell (a joke).
• "he cracked jokes which she didn't find very funny"
• decompose (hydrocarbons) by heat and pressure with or without a catalyst to produce lighter hydrocarbons, especially in oil refining.
• "catalytic cracking increases gasoline yields"
Origin:
Old English cracian ‘make an explosive noise’; of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraken and German krachen . crack (sense 4 of the noun) is from Irish craic ‘entertaining conversation’.
