fissure
/ˈfɪʃ.ɚ/ verb C2- To split, forming fissures.
He/she/it fissures · Past fissured · Past participle fissured · -ing form fissuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- fissure
- He/she/it
- fissures
- Past
- fissured
- Past participle
- fissured
- -ing form
- fissuring
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Yet he did not leave a foot of this granite wall, as impenetrable as futurity, without strict scrutiny; he did not see a fissure without introducing the blade of his hunting sword into it, or a projecting point on which he did not lean and press in the hopes it would give way.
Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?
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