crack

It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.

When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.

Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.

When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.

The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

His voice cracked with emotion.

His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.

The ball cracked the window.

You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

Could you please crack the window?

They managed to crack him on the third day.

I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.

to crack a whip

The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.

That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

I'd love to crack open a beer.

To whom the boaſter, that all knights did blot, / With proud diſdaine did ſcornefull anſwere make; […] And further did vncomely ſpeaches crake.

The credit […] of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.