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1. Make a crackling sound
   "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl"
   - crepitate
    
2. Make a crushing noise
   - crunch, scranch, scraunch
    
3. To become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
   "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"

1. The sharp sound of snapping noises
   - crackling, crepitation
    
2. Glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
   - crackleware, crackle china

1. Having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
   "a crackle glaze"

Derived forms: crackles, crackled, crackling

See also: fancy

Type of: alter, change, china, make noise, noise, rattle, resound, vary

Encyclopedia: Crackle