crevice

[ krev-is ]
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noun
  1. a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.

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Origin of crevice

1
1300–50; Middle English crevace<Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to crev(er) to crack (<Latin crepāre) + -ace noun suffix

Other words from crevice

  • creviced, adjective

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How to use crevice in a sentence

  • The critique extends into nearly every little crevice and lacuna of our civic life.

    Who Are the Judicial Activists Now? | Michael Tomasky | October 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • We will pull back the onion and explore every crack and crevice.

  • If I Can Dream pushes the ties of interactivity at the molecular level into every crevice of its stars' lives.

    The New Real World | Richard Rushfield | April 2, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • I plucked them from the crevice, hoping not to find a bent temple.

    You Better Not Cry | Daily Beast Promotions | December 1, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • His foot caught; it is unknown in what,—in a twisted tie, or perhaps in a crevice of the cracking earth.

    A Lost Hero | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward
  • A glimpse of daylight penetrated through a crevice in the rock, and on fine nights one could see the stars.

    Honey-Bee | Anatole France
  • In the deep, following silence each knew that old Mata's ear felt, like a hand, at the crevice of the shoji.

    The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosa
  • The stone walls of houses were cracked; one of the "mansions" had a zigzag crevice from top to bottom.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • He removed the bar of the door and through the crevice sounded his terrible war-cry, the scream of a panther.

    A Virginia Scout | Hugh Pendexter

British Dictionary definitions for crevice

crevice

/ (ˈkrɛvɪs) /


noun
  1. a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft

Origin of crevice

1
C14: from Old French crevace, from crever to burst, from Latin crepāre to crack

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