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• past participle of crack.
• past tense form of crack.

cracked

American  

[krakt] / krækt /

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.

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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.

cracked British  

/ krækt /

adjective

1. damaged by cracking

2. informal crazy

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Other Word Forms

• uncracked
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of cracked

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

Example Sentences

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cracked

But this is something Henkel, with both a consumer brand division, and adhesive technologies division, has cracked.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The beams initially cracked in March but were repaired quickly, the spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

‘I have a $2,000 deductible’: I reported a cracked windshield on my Hertz rental car.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Leida Bello, meanwhile, hauls her supplies home alone, where some walls are cracked and one has even collapsed.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

I turn and see a man in one of the lobby’s cracked leather chairs.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Related Words

• broken
• damaged
• fractured