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cracked

 
(krăkt) pronunciation
adj.
    1. Broken so that fissures appear on the surface: a cracked mirror.
    2. Broken into small or coarse pieces: cracked corn; cracked ice.
  1. Having a harsh or dissonant tone: a cracked voice.
  2. Informal. Mentally deranged; crazy.

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    Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal bonkers, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British crackers. Law non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, offout ofone's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane/insane.

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Crazy. (1692 —) .
Listener I suppose all writers of children's classics have been cracked, or at least extremely weird (1968).



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Said of grain; indicates grain that has been exposed to a combined breaking and crushing action.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - revnet, skør

Nederlands (Dutch)
getikt, gebarsten, hees

Français (French)
adj. - craquelé, fendu, crevassé, fêlé, cinglé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - übergeschnappt, rissig, gesprungen, gebrochen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ραγισμένος, σκασμένος, (καθομ.) βλαμμένος, ζουρλός

Italiano (Italian)
toccato, fesso, incrinato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - rachado

Русский (Russian)
безумный, треснувший, надтреснутый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - chiflado, chalado, roto, rajado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - knäckt, spräckt, skadad, skamfilad, sprucken (röst), vrickad (vard.), krackad (kem.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
破碎的, 声音嘶哑的, 破裂的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 破碎的, 聲音嘶啞的, 破裂的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 금이 간, 손상된, 미친

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ひびの入った, 割れた, かすれた, ばかな

idioms:

  • cracked up to be    褒めちぎられる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مشقوق, مفلوق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מטורף‬


 
 
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