cranny, n. 1. chink, chip, crack, chap, check, fracture, break; fissure, crevice, crevasse, groove, furrow, rut, bergschrund; cleft, split, slit, rift, breach, stria, rupture, sulcus, scission, Archaic, scissure, separation; gash, rent, scotch, cut.
2. hole, gap, cavity, opening, orifice, aperture; space, interspace, interval, interstice, narrow, crapulous, adj. 1. drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, inebriate, inebrious, bibacious, crapulent; drunken, sodden, besotted, sotted, sottish, awash, Literary, in one's cups; saturated, soused, full, Scot. fou; tipsy, grogged, fuddled, muddled, obfuscated, woozy, bleary-eyed, pie-eyed, glassy-eyed.
2. All Inf. boozy, tight, lit, lit up, lit to the gills; three or four sheets to the wind, under the sauce, pickled, high.
3. gluttonous, edacious, devouring, gormandizing, cormorant, voracious; open-mouthed, hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish, gross, self-indulgent.
4. greedy, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, omnivorous. crash, v. 1. smash, shatter, break, batter, dash to pieces, wreck, destroy; fracture, fragmentize, splinter, shiver; chip, crack, snap.
2. bump into, collide with, smash into, run into, Inf. plow into, drive into; butt, jar, jolt, jostle.
3. fall, tumble, topple; collapse, fail, fold, give way, crumble.
4. clash, clang, clank, clatter; bang, boom, thunder, roar, explode, fulminate.
5. Informal, come uninvited, invade, intrude, U.S. SI. horn in; sneak in, slip in.
-n. 6. clatter, clangor, clang, bang, racket, din;
boom, thunder, blast, detonation, explosion.
7. smash, smash-up, wreck, crack-up, collision.
8. bankruptcy, financial disaster, collapse, failure, downfall, fall, ruin, ruination. crass, adj. 1. crude, coarse, vulgar, rude; impolite, unmannered, ill-mannered, uncouth, ill-bred, uncivil, uncourteous; boorish, backward, rustic, countrified, unsophisticated, inurbane; unrefined, unpolished, indelicate, insensitive.
2. obtuse, dull, slow-witted, stolid, bovine, blockish, stupid, dense, thick, obtuse; loutish, oafish, doltish, lumpish.
3. gross, unsubtle, blatant, glaring, undisguised, open, naked, outright, downright, out-and-out.
crate, n. box, case, container, holder, receptacle; basket, hamper, pannier, dosser, wickerwork, crater, n. cavity, hollow, depression, dip; hole, pit, cleft, opening; abyss, chasm, gulf, cravat, n. necktie, tie, bow tie, bolo tie, four-inhand; ascot, foulard, stock, neckerchief, neckcloth, scarf, bandana, dickey. crave, v. 1. desire, covet, want, want with all one's heart, want in the worst way, be dying for; long for, yearn for, hunger for, thirst for, pant for, lust for, hanker for, Inf. yen for.
2. require, need, demand, necessitate, dictate, call for, cry out for.
3. beseech, entreat, implore, supplicate, pray, sue, solicit, call on or upon; beg for, plead for. craven, adj. 1. cowardly, poltroon, dastardly, base, recreant, Archaic, niddering, Archaic, caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, fearful, afraid, frightened, afraid of one's shadow, faint-hearted, lily-livered, white-livered, Inf. chicken-hearted, Inf. chicken-livered, Inf. pantywaist, Inf. yellow, SI. yellow-bellied, SI. candy-assed.