crevice
/ˈkɹɛvɪs/ verb C2- To crack; to flaw.
He/she/it crevices · Past creviced · Past participle creviced · -ing form crevicing
Verb forms
- Base form
- crevice
- He/she/it
- crevices
- Past
- creviced
- Past participle
- creviced
- -ing form
- crevicing
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I tapped upon the floor, but it sounded the same all over, and there was no sign of any crack or crevice.
A guttering candle was stuck in a crevice of the rocks which flanked it on each side so as to keep the wind from it and also to prevent it from being visible, save in the direction of Baskerville Hall.
Over the rocks, in the crevice of which the candle burned, there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions.
Peppino glided first into this crevice; after they got along a few paces the passage widened.
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