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cracking

/ˈkɹækɪŋ/

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verb

Agrietarse, resquebrajarse

To form cracks.

Examples :

"The old concrete sidewalk was cracking, showing several small lines of breakage. "

La vieja acera de concreto se estaba agrietando, mostrando varias pequeñas líneas de rotura.

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verb

Agrietarse, romperse

To break apart under pressure.

Examples :

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

Cuando intenté pararme en la silla, se agrietó.

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verb

Ceder bajo presión psicológica

To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

Examples :

"Anyone would crack after being hounded like that."

Cualquiera cedería bajo esa presión.

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verb

Ceder, derrumbarse

To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

Examples :

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

Cuando le mostramos las fotos de la escena del crimen, cedió.

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verb

Crujir, agrietarse

To make a cracking sound.

Examples :

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

El bate crujió con autoridad y la pelota se fue por seis.

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verb

Quebrarse, cambiar

(of a voice) To change rapidly in register.

Examples :

"His voice cracked with emotion."

Su voz se quebró por la emoción.

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verb

Quebrarse, cambiar la voz

(of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

Examples :

"His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen."

Su voz finalmente se quebró cuando tenía catorce años.

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verb

Hacer un comentario agudo y humorístico

To make a sharply humorous comment.

Examples :

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

Ella soltó: "Yo también, con esa cara".

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verb

Agrietar, resquebrajar

To make a crack or cracks in.

Examples :

"The ball cracked the window."

La pelota agrietó la ventana.

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verb

Romper, quebrar

To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

Examples :

"The child was cracking walnuts with a hammer. "

El niño estaba rompiendo nueces con un martillo.

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verb

Romper, agrietar

To strike forcefully.

Examples :

"She cracked him over the head with her handbag."

Ella le rompió la cabeza con su bolso.

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verb

Agrietarse, entreabrir

To open slightly.

Examples :

"Could you please crack the window?"

¿Podrías entreabrir la ventana, por favor?

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verb

Hacer ceder, doblegar

To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)

Examples :

"They managed to crack him on the third day."

Lograron doblegarlo al tercer día.

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verb

Resolver, descifrar

To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)

Examples :

"After hours of brainstorming, the team finally succeeded in cracking the code to the marketing campaign. "

Después de horas de lluvia de ideas, el equipo finalmente logró resolver el código de la campaña de marketing.

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verb

Romper, descifrar

To overcome a security system or a component.

Examples :

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

Tardó un minuto en romper la cerradura, tres minutos en descifrar el sistema de seguridad y unos veinte minutos en abrir la caja fuerte.

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verb

Crujir, hacer crujir

To cause to make a sharp sound.

Examples :

"to crack a whip"

Hacer crujir un látigo.

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verb

Contar, soltar

To tell (a joke).

Examples :

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

La actuación estuvo bien hasta que soltó ese chiste sobre el bebé muerto.

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verb

Craquear, romper

To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

Examples :

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

La acetona se craquea a ceteno y metano a 700°C.

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verb

Crackear, romper

To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

Examples :

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

Esa licencia de software expirará mañana a menos que podamos crackearla.

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verb

Abrir

To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

Examples :

"After a long day of work, I enjoyed cracking open a cold soda. "

Después de un largo día de trabajo, disfruté abriendo una soda fría.

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verb

Jactarse, presumir

To brag, boast.

Examples :

"He kept cracking about his high test score, even though everyone else did well too. "

Él siguió jactándose de su alta puntuación en el examen, aunque a todos los demás también les fue bien.

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verb

Deteriorarse, fracasar

To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

Examples :

"The old bridge is cracking under the weight of the heavy trucks; it might fail soon. "

El viejo puente se está deteriorando bajo el peso de los camiones pesados; podría fracasar pronto.

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noun

El craqueo

The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.

Examples :

"The chemical industry uses cracking to transform heavy oil into lighter, more valuable fuels like gasoline. "

La industria química utiliza el craqueo para transformar el petróleo pesado en combustibles más ligeros y valiosos como la gasolina.

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noun

Agrietamiento, formación de grietas

The formation of cracks on a surface.

Examples :

"The cracking in the pavement near the school was getting worse, making it bumpy and dangerous for students to walk on. "

El agrietamiento en el pavimento cerca de la escuela empeoraba, haciéndolo irregular y peligroso para que los estudiantes caminaran sobre él.

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noun

Crujido, chasquido

The production of a crack sound.

Examples :

"the crackings of whips"

Los crujidos de los látigos

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adjective

Genial, estupendo

Examples :

"The race started at a cracking pace."

La carrera comenzó a un ritmo estupendo.

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adjective

Estupendo, genial

Examples :

"We had a cracking time."

Nos lo pasamos estupendamente.

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adverb

Muy, genial

Very, usually associated with praise.

Examples :

"It was a cracking good show."

Fue un espectáculo genial.