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crack
Synonyms and Antonyms of crack
- known as one of the collegeʼs crack tennis players
accomplished, ace, adept, compleat, complete, consummate, crackerjack, educated, experienced, expert, good, great, master, masterful, masterly, practiced (also practised), professed, proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso
adroit, clever, deft, dexterous (also dextrous), handy, slick, sure-handed
effective, effectual, efficient, workmanlike
able, capable, competent, employable, fit, fitted, habile, qualified
educated, knowledgeable, schooled, taught, trained, tutored
all-around (also all-round), well-rounded
crack
Synonyms and Antonyms of crack
- a pebble struck the carʼs windshield and left a spidery crack in it
- a disciplinary crack on the hand with a ruler was once common in schoolrooms
bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, biff, blow, bop, box, buffet, bust, chop, clap, clip, clout, cuff, dab, douse [British], fillip, hack, haymaker, hit, hook, knock, larrup [dialect], lash, lick, pelt, pick, plump, poke, pound, punch, rap, slam, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, spank, stinger, stripe, stroke, swat, swipe, switch, thud, thump, thwack, wallop, welt, whack, wham, whop (also whap)
counter, counterblow, counterpunch, counterstroke
body blow, hand, kick, knee, left, one-two, rabbit punch, right, right-hander, roundhouse, shiver, sidewinder, sucker punch, swing, uppercut
cruncher, kayo, knockdown, knockout, KO
bastinado (or bastinade), battering, beating, bludgeoning, clobbering, cudgeling (or cudgelling), drubbing, hammering, lambasting, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), thrashing
- the tree fell with a sharp crack
- this is my first crack at painting
- a whispered crack made the whole back row start laughing
knee-slapper, panic [slang], riot, scream, thigh-slapper
antic, buffoonery, caper, leg-pull, monkeyshine(s), practical joke, prank, trick
burlesque, caricature, lampoon, mock, mockery, parody, put-on, riff
banter, kidding, persiflage, raillery, repartee
drollness, facetiousness, funniness, hilariousness, humorousness
- that conspiracy theorist has been labeled a crack by the ballistics experts
crack
Synonyms and Antonyms of crack
- after hours of tough questioning the suspect finally cracked and blurted out a confession
break down, break up, flip (out) [slang], freak (out), melt down, wig (out) [slang]
- the United States military used the Navajo language as a code during World War II, and the enemy never cracked it
- cracked the bow of the ship with a champagne bottle
batter, beat, buffet, bung, chop, cuff, drub, lace, lambaste (or lambast), lick, mangle, maul, pelt, pepper, pommel, pummel, rough
bump, butt, jab, jostle, kick, knee, poke, prod, push, shove, stamp
bowl (down or over), cream, deck, dump [slang], fell, floor, knock down, level
cane, club, cudgel, flail, flog, lash, sap, slash, sledge, sledgehammer, spear, stab, switch, thrash, whip
- I've been mulling this riddle, but I just can't crack it
- cracked by years in solitary confinement, the prisoner could only maunder incoherently
calm, quiet, relax, settle, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize)
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