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  • 41cracked — adjective Date: 1503 1. a. broken (as by a sharp blow) so that the surface is fissured < cracked china > b. broken into coarse particles < cracked wheat > c. marked by harshness, dissonance, or failure to …

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  • 42cracked\ up — adj. phr. informal Favorably described or presented; praised. Usually used in the expression not what it s cracked up to be . The independent writer s life isn t always everything it s cracked up to be. In bad weather, a sailing cruise isn t what …

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  • 43cracked wheat — noun grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces • Hypernyms: ↑wheat, ↑wheat berry * * * cracked wheat noun Wheat coarsely ground, boiled and then dried for use as a cereal food, bulgur • • • Main Entry: ↑crack * * * n. grains of&#8230; …

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  • 44cracked — damaged damaged (d[a^]m [asl]jd), adj. 1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; usually not used of persons. Opposite of {undamaged}. [Narrower terms: {battered, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken down,&#8230; …

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  • 45cracked crackled crazed — damaged damaged (d[a^]m [asl]jd), adj. 1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; usually not used of persons. Opposite of {undamaged}. [Narrower terms: {battered, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken down,&#8230; …

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  • 46Cracked China — Infobox Television episode Title = Cracked China Series = Robot Chicken Caption = My little pony, Apocalypse Pony! Season = 2 Episode = 7 Airdate = May 14 2006 Production = 207 Writer = Jordan Allen Dutton Mike Fasolo Seth Green Matthew Senreich&#8230; …

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  • 47Cracked tooth syndrome — A toothache caused by a broken tooth (tooth fracture) without associated cavity or advanced gum disease. Biting on the area of tooth fracture can cause severe sharp pains. These fractures are usually due to chewing or biting hard objects such as&#8230; …

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  • 48cracked — adj. ADVERB ▪ badly, severely ▪ The dish was badly cracked. ▪ slightly Cracked is used with these nouns: ↑bone, ↑china, ↑cup, ↑ …

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  • 49cracked — adjective 1) a cracked cup Syn: chipped, broken, crazed, fractured, splintered, split; damaged, defective, flawed, imperfect 2) informal you re cracked! See mad 1) …

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  • 50cracked — /krækt / (say krakt) adjective 1. broken. 2. broken without separation of parts; fissured. 3. damaged. 4. Colloquial mentally unsound. 5. broken in tone, as the voice. –phrase 6. be cracked up to be, Colloquial to be reported to be: not the great …