crevice
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/
crevice (plural crevices)
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- French: fissure fente
- German: Spalt, Spalte, Felsspalt (rock), Felsritze (rock), Mauerspalt (wall), Mauerritze (wall)
- Italian: fessura, fenditura, crepa
- Portuguese: fenda, fresta
- Russian: тре́щина
crevice (crevices, present participle crevicing; past and past participle creviced)
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