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crack
Synonyms and Antonyms of crack
- known as one of the college's crack tennis players
accomplished, ace, adept, complete, consummate, crackerjack, educated, experienced, expert, good, great, master, masterful, masterly, practiced (also practised), proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso
crack
Synonyms and Antonyms of crack
- A pebble struck the car's 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, blow, bop, box, buffet, bust, chop, clap, clip, clout, cuff, dab, fillip, hack, haymaker, hit, hook, knock, lash, lick, pelt, 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
battering, beating, bludgeoning, clobbering, cudgeling (or cudgelling), drubbing, hammering, lambasting, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), thrashing
- The tree fell with a sharp crack.
- A whispered crack made the whole back row start laughing.
- That conspiracy theorist has been labeled a crack.
odd duck, piece of work
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]
blow one's cool, fall apart, go off the deep end, go to pieces, lose it
- The United States military used the Navajo language as a code during World War II, and the enemy never cracked it.
- cracked the log with an ax
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, fell, floor, knock down, level
cane, club, cudgel, flail, flog, lash, sap, slash, sledge, sledgehammer, spear, stab, switch, thrash, whip
hang one on
- 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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