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crevice

American  
[krev-is] / ˈkrɛv ɪs /

noun

  1. a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.

crevice British  
/ ˈkrɛvɪs /

noun

  1. a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft

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Other Word Forms

  • creviced adjective

Etymology

Origin of crevice

1300–50; Middle English crevace < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to crev ( er ) to crack (< Latin crepāre ) + -ace noun suffix

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The granddaughter of a traumatized mouse may still carry a certain characteristic, but her fundamental mousiness isn’t a result of such highly specific ancestral experiences, which operate in the narrowest crevices of evolution.

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I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.

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More pixies burst from the crevices, and they all danced on the gold, twittering and screeching, “Gold, gold, gold!”

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Then he hopped down from the rock and led them downhill, down a winding offshoot trail toward a crevice behind the rock.

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Great crevices had opened in the Earth’s surface.

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