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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crack \Crack\ (kr[a^]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cracked} (kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cracking}.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crake}, {Cracknel}, {Creak}.]
1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak.
He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. --Roscommon.
3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. --B. Jonson.
5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]
{To crack a bottle}, to open the bottle and drink its contents.
{To crack a crib}, to commit burglary. [Slang]
{To crack on}, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cracked \Cracked\ (kr[a^]kt), adjective
1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
2. Crack-brained. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adjective
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, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound}; {bent, crumpled, dented}; {blasted, rent, ripped, torn}; {broken-backed}; {burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate)}; {burst, ruptured}; {corroded}; {cracked, crackled, crazed}; {defaced, marred}; {hurt, weakened}; {knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out}; {mangled, mutilated}; {peeling}; {scraped, scratched}; {storm-beaten}] Also See {blemished}, {broken}, {damaged}, {destroyed}, {impaired}, {injured}, {unsound}. [WordNet 1.5]
2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of {unbroken}. [Narrower terms: {busted}; {chipped}; {cracked}; {crumbled, fragmented}; {crushed, ground}; {dissolved}; {fractured}; {shattered, smashed, splintered}; {split}; {unkept, violated}] Also See: {damaged}, {imperfect}, {injured}, {unsound}.
Syn: broken. [WordNet 1.5]
3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.
Syn: discredited. [WordNet 1.5]
4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cracked
adjective
1: used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips" [syn: {chapped}, {roughened}]
2: broken without being divided into parts but having fissures appear on the surface; "a cracked mirror"
3: of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide [syn: {alligatored}]
4: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {crackers}, {daft}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
220 Moby Thesaurus words for "cracked": abnormal, absonant, aggravated, arrested, atonal, babbling, backward, batty, bereft of reason, blemished, blithering, brainsick, brassy, brazen, broken, burbling, burned, burst, busted, cacophonous, checked, chinky, chipped, choked, cicatrized, cleft, cloven, coarse, crackbrained, crazed, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, croaking, croaky, cut, daft, damaged, defaced, defective, deformed, dehiscent, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, deteriorated, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disfigured, disharmonic, disharmonious, disoriented, dissonant, distorted, distraught, dithering, driveling, drooling, dry, embittered, exacerbated, faulty, fissured, fissury, flat, flawed, flighty, gaping, gappy, grating, gruff, guttural, half-baked, half-witted, hallucinated, harmed, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, hurt, husky, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, immelodious, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, inharmonic, inharmonious, injured, insane, irrational, irritated, keloidal, kinked, lacerate, lacerated, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, mangled, maniac, manic, marred, maundering, mazed, mental, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, meshuggah, metallic, mongoloid, moon-struck, moronic, musicless, mutilated, non compos, non compos mentis, nonmelodious, not all there, not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, pimpled, pimply, psycho, quartered, queer, ragged, raucid, raucous, reasonless, rent, retarded, rift, rimose, rimulose, riven, rough, roupy, rude, ruptured, scabbed, scabby, scalded, scarified, scarred, scorched, screwy, senseless, severed, sharp, shattered, shredded, shrill, sick, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slashed, slit, slobbering, smashed, sour, splintered, split, sprung, squawking, squawky, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, stertorous, strange, strangled, strident, subnormal, tattered, tetched, the worse for, thick, throaty, tinny, torn, touched, tuneless, twisted, unbalanced, unharmonious, unhinged, unmelodious, unmusical, unsane, unsettled, unsound, untunable, untuned, untuneful, wandering, warped, weakened, witless, worse, worse off, worsened
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