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crevice, n. cleft, fissure, rent, cranny, crack, c.h.i.n.k.
crew, n. a.s.semblage, throng, gang, mob, band, crowd.
crib, n. manger, rack; bin, bunker, box.
crib, v. (Colloq.) appropriate, plagiarize, steal, purloin.
cricket, n. a.s.sociated Words: stridulate, stridulation, stridulator, stridulatory, stridulous.
crime, n. felony, atrocity, outrage, enormity; offense, transgression, misdemeanor, malefaction, dereliction. a.s.sociated Words: criminology, criminologist, criminality, recidivism, recidivist.
criminal, a. felonious, flagitious.
criminal, n. felon, malefactor, culprit; criminaloid.
criminate, v. incriminate, implicate, accuse.
crimination, n. incrimination.
crimp, v. curl, crisp, frizz.
crimpy, a. frizzly, crimped, wavy.
crinc.u.m, n. (Colloq.) twist, turn, freak, caprice, fancy, whim.
cringe, v. truckle, fawn, crouch.
cringing, a. truckling, fawning, servile, obsequious, slavish.
crinkle, v. curl, wrinkle.
crinkly, a. wavy, wrinkly, kinky.
cripple, v. maim, lame, disable; hough, hamstring.
crippled, a. maimed, lame, disabled, deformed, halt.
crisis, n. critical juncture; climacteric, emergency, strait, exigency.
crisp, a. brittle, friable, short; crackling, lively, brisk.
Antonyms: tenacious, tough, flexible.
critic, n. censor, reviewer, adept, judge, inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus.
critical, a. discriminating, fastidious; carping, censorious, captious, caviling, zoilean; crucial, momentous, decisive, precarious, climacteric.
criticism, n. critique, censure, animadversion, stricture, cavil.
croak, v. forebode, decry, complain, grumble.
croaker, n. grumbler, alarmist, decrier, pessimist.
crock, n. jar, pot; soot, s.m.u.t.
crony, n. (Colloq.) bosom friend, intimate, a.s.sociate, chum.
crook, n. bend, turn, curve, curvature, deflection; crosier; pothook; artifice, trick, subterfuge, ruse.
crook, v. bend, curve, incurvate.
crooked, a. twisted, bent, devious, deformed, tortuous, sinuous, winding, flexuous, curved, curvilinear, spiral, labyrinthial; distorted, awry, askew, wry; dishonest, fraudulent, unscrupulous, knavish.
crookedness, n. tortuousness, tortuosity, sinuosity, incurvation, curvature, deformity, curvity, wryness, anfractuosity; dishonesty, improbity.
crop, n. harvest, fruit, product, ingathering.
crop, v. clip, lop, cut off; gather, reap, harvest, garner; browse, nibble.
cross, n. crucifix, rood, gibbet; rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottony. a.s.sociated Words: crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignation.
cross, n. hybrid, mongrel, limmer.
cross, a. athwart, transverse, intersecting; adverse, baffling, contrary, perverse; petulant, peevish, cynical, surly, unamiable, inaffable, crabbed, crusty, captious, fractious, churlish, vixenish, querulous, fretful, choleric, touchy, waspish, morose, sullen, ill-natured, irascible acrimonious, irritable; inverse, interchanged.
cross, v. intersect; traverse; run counter to, thwart, baffle, frustrate, foil; intercross; interbreed, hybridize; cancel.
crossbarred, a. cancellated.
crossbars, n. pl. lattice, grille, cancelli.
crossbeam, n. girder, stringer.
crossbow, n. arbelest, arcubalist.
crossbreed, n. hybrid, mongrel.
crossbreeding, n. hybridization.
crossbred, a. hybrid, mongrel.
crosscut, v. intersect.
cross-examination, n. cross-questioning, inquisition.
cross-eye, n. strabismus, strabism.
cross-fertilization, n. allogamy.
