English Explanatory Dictionary

tocrack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound.

Word forms

tocrack tocracks tocracking tocracked

Etymology

From Middle English tocraken (“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”), from Old English cracian (“to make a cracking sound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), equivalent to to- + crack.

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