Cracking and Passing

Cracking

Cracking adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: tells a cracking good tale of a search for a lost city

Passing and cracking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Passing" instead an adverb "Cracking".

Nearby Words: crack, cracked, crackle, cracker, crackdown

Passing

Passing adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: a passing strange turn of events

Cracking and passing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cracking" instead an adverb "Passing".

Nearby Words: pass, passage, passed, passable, passingly

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Dexter has become so comfortable with the notion that he's a monster that he usually just mentions it in passing, cracking Inner Monologue jokes about it.
  • Ride / Jungle Cruise Apocalyptic Log: One of the radio transmissions in the queue has a skipper warning the dockmasters about the natives attacking passing boats, cracking in and out before being lost in static.
  • Electric Torture It's done in a somewhat more gritty way as, among other things, you can hear his teeth cracking as he clenches them in pain when the current is passing through.
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