Crack and Start

Crack

Crack verb - To break suddenly with an explosive sound.

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Start and crack are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Start" instead the word "Crack" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: cracked, cracking, crackle, cracker, crackled

Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).

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Crack and start are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crack" instead the word "Start" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

good	good crack	good start
best	best crack	best start
complete	complete crack	complete start
free	free crack	free start
Other adjectives: small, actual, massive, big, great, main, remote, final, official, last, literal.

Things that should not be made public, and as far as they're concerned, I'm better off dead than risk being slowly tortured until I crack and start hemorrhaging information.

Source: Fan Fic / Article 2
Different sort of crack, but the 'cracks in time' from Doctor Who are definitely a bad sign when they start turning up.

Source: Ominous Crack
When captured along with another Word Bearer then tortured and cut from his link with the Warp by Dark Eldar, the other Marines start to crack.

Source: Literature / Word Bearers

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