cracked

[krakt]

adjective

1. broken.

   a container full of cracked ice.

2. broken without separation of parts; fissured.

3. damaged; injured.

4. Informal.,  eccentric; mad; daffy.

   a charming person, but a bit cracked.

5. broken in tone, as the voice.

cracked

/ krækt /

adjective

1. damaged by cracking

2. informal,  crazy

Other Word Forms

• uncracked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cracked¹

First recorded in 1400–50, cracked is from the late Middle English word crachyd. See crack, -ed ²

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. cracked up to be, reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative).

   I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.

Example Sentences

He pointed to the cracked, narrow sidewalk on a bridge that connects the community to downtown, which Nashville had planned to fix with some $9.3 million of federal funds that were nixed.

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On Saturday police in the southern city of Bengaluru said they had cracked the case and recovered 57.6m rupees of the money stolen three days earlier.

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Several AI songs cracked genre-specific sales charts, but that might only require around 1,000 downloads—not a huge listener base.

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While the conundrum is far from cracked, England can focus on simplicity going forward.

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After Khan was arrested in May 2023, soldiers cracked down on his supporters as they took to the streets and vandalized military sites.

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