Synonyms for crevice

Grammar : Noun

Spell : krev-is

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkrɛv ɪs

Top 10 synonyms for crevice

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Définition of crevice

Origin : mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak;" meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.

noun crack

Example sentences :

There is only the risk; the crevice to be covered is not a yard long.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

But it struck the crevice fairly, and they heard it rattle on inside.
Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin

She cried from the crevice where she lay huddled, "Never, never!"
Extract from : « Tales of Unrest » by Joseph Conrad

The inner end of the pole she wedged in a crevice of the split rock.
Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet

Before it could stop the pressure of the herd drove it into the crevice.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various

Why not suspect him of having placed the hide in the crevice where it had later been found?
Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower

It was not until several days later that he had found it in the crevice.
Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower

And he said if I left the money he would throw it down the crevice yonder––and he would do it!
Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower

He followed Jerry, who bounded across a crevice in the earth.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various

Its roots were so firmly fixed in the crevice that it held my weight and saved me.
Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers » by Various

Antonyms for crevice

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