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Cracked vs Craked - What's the difference?

cracked | craked |

As verbs the difference between cracked and craked

is that cracked is past tense of crack while craked is past tense of crake.

As an adjective cracked

is broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.

cracked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
  • Broken into coarse pieces.
  • (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
  • (slang) Crazy; crackpot.

    • Synonyms

    * (broken so that cracks appear ): crazed * (broken into coarse pieces ): * (of a voice ): discordant, dissonant, harsh, inharmonious, raspy, rough * (slang: crazy ): See also

    Derived terms

    * cracked up * cracked wheat * not all it's cracked up to be

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crack)

    • craked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crake)

    • crake

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Crake

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
    • Derived terms
    * Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crake

    Verb

    (crak)
  • To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

    • Etymology 2

    See crack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

    • Verb

    (crak)
  • (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  • * The Mirror for Magistrates
    • Each man may crake of that which was his own.

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