crevice
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- creviced adjective
Etymology
Origin of crevice
1300–50; Middle English crevace < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to crev ( er ) to crack (< Latin crepāre ) + -ace noun suffix
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Then he hopped down from the rock and led them downhill, down a winding offshoot trail toward a crevice behind the rock.
From Literature
Great crevices had opened in the Earth’s surface.
From Literature
One day while diving she’d got her foot stuck in a rock crevice, and by the time her fellow clam pickers reached her she’d inhaled too much water.
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I walk out into the courtyard, and when my eyes adjust to the darkness, I hide the parchment deep in one of the crevices in the wall surrounding our house.
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The peak of Yosemite’s granite wall is higher than the tallest building in the world and requires climbers to navigate a maze of fissures, crevices and cracks.
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