crevice

Definition of crevicenext
as in fissure
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure steam escaped from a long crevice in the volcano

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Recent Examples of crevice Caulk any open cracks and crevices in windows, doorways, baseboards and floors that have access to outside. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026 Photos and video show the explorers squeezing through jagged crevices deep inside the karsts, using flashlights to guide them further along an otherwise pitch-black maze of rocky burrows. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 Add it to the growing canvases of her daughters playing at the sea, climbing the rocks, placing their tiny hands in the crevices of the walls surrounding the house. Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026 Mahajan presses firmly into the inner lives and cerebral crevices of terror victims, witnesses and perpetrators. Sibani Ram, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crevice
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevice
Noun
  • Upon cracking, the perlite beads purposely shattered, releasing nutrients and spores into the fissure.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Miles and Ed are coming at the challenges of Mars-Earth relations and Marsie autonomy from totally different angles, and there are clearly fissures within SDM itself.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But Mallach did not disagree that the event had usefully exposed a rift in the community.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The split reflects a broader rift within conservative media.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

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“Crevice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevice. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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