crack
/kɹæk/ verbe B2En français : se fissurer, craquer, lâcher, muer
- To form cracks. · It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure. · When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure. · Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture. · When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
- To make a cracking sound. · The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
- To change rapidly in register. · His voice cracked with emotion.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. · His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
- To make a sharply humorous comment. · "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
He/she/it cracks · Prétérit cracked · Participe passé cracked · Forme en -ing cracking
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- crack
- He/she/it
- cracks
- Prétérit
- cracked
- Participe passé
- cracked
- Forme en -ing
- cracking
Verbes à particule et expressions
- crack along To move quickly; to continue with work briskly.
- crack down sévir, frapper
- crack off To shoot a gun.
- crack on To continue (at a task) briskly or promptly.
- crack out To show signs or symptoms of excessive crack cocaine use.
- crack through To penetrate
- crack up faire rire, craquer, péter un plomb
Dans la bibliothèque
“I’ve moved the bureau and I’ve taken out the drawers and I’ve looked in every crack and cranny” was Marilla’s positive answer.
When school went out Anne marched to her desk, ostentatiously took out everything therein, books and writing tablet, pen and ink, testament and arithmetic, and piled them neatly on her cracked slate.
The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.
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