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Phrasal Verbs with the word 'Crack'

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    04 December at 09:00 AM

Hello friends, today, we will learn phrasal verbs that start with the word ‘Crack’ along with their meanings and usages.

 

Verb → Crack

  • Crackdown

Meaning – To address or control something more strictly than in the past

Usage – After years of leniency, the school is finally cracking down on plagiarism.

 

  • Crackdown on

Meaning – Act more forcefully to regulate, repress, or restrain

Usage – The police cracked down on speeding.

 

  • Crackdown

Meaning – To increase the intensity or severity involved in punishing or repressing someone

Usage – The government has cracked down on protesters.

 

  • Crack on

Meaning – Continue at a (normally uninteresting) task

Usage – After a moment of insight into how I would end the story, I decided to crack on with my novel until the break of morning.

 

  • Crack on

Meaning – To continue doing something, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible

Usage – Just tell him what to do and he'll crack on with the work.

 

  • Crackup

Meaning – To laugh very hard

Usage – We all cracked up at the comedian’s joke.

 

  • Crackup

Meaning – To experience a mental or emotional breakdown

Usage – All those days of sleep deprivation finally caused me to crack up.

 

  • Crackup

Meaning – To destroy something

Usage – He drove into a tree and cracked up his truck.

 

  • Crackup

Meaning – To be in an accident

Usage – I cracked up after losing control of my car.

 

  • Crack out

Meaning – Produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine

Usage – The new machine cracks out 250 biscuits every minute.

 

 

 

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