Meaning

1 senses

  1. To crack; to flaw.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. The centipede slinked into the narrow crevice.

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  2. The centipede hid in the dark crevices.

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  3. We don't have time to search every crevice.

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  4. Dust gathered in the small crevices of his dashboard.

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  5. My phone fell into the crevice between the two seats.

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Origin

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), fro

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

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Forms

crevices, crevicing, creviced, creviced
Base formcrevice · to crevice
3rd person singularcrevices
Present participlecrevicing
Past simplecreviced
Past participlecreviced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrevice
he, she, itcrevices

Past simpleLesson

all personscreviced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave creviced
he, she, ithas creviced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crevice

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cretaceouscretincrevassecrewB2crewmancrib

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