crackle
/ˈkɹækəl/ verb C2- To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping. · a crackling fire
- To be full of tension or emotion. · The last scenes of the film crackle with repressed sexual energy.
He/she/it crackles · Past crackled · Past participle crackled · -ing form crackling
Verb forms
- Base form
- crackle
- He/she/it
- crackles
- Past
- crackled
- Past participle
- crackled
- -ing form
- crackling
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Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them.
There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire.
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