crevice

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UK/ˈkɹɛvɪs/

noun

A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

nouncrevice (plural crevices)

plural crevices

  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

    16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

    2 more examples

    [T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.

    1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 13

    A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.

    1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
  2. slangThe vagina.

    […] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice.

    2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130
verbcrevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)

present singular third person crevices · participle present crevicing · participle past creviced · past creviced

  1. To crack; to flaw.

    they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall

    1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna long narrow depression in a surface

nouna long narrow cleft

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latincrepō“to break, burst, crack”
  2. Old Frenchcrevace
  3. Middle Englishcrevice
  4. Englishcrevice

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

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Translations

Bulgarian пукнатина, цепнатина
  • пукнатина (puknatina)narrow crack
  • цепнатина (cepnatina)narrow crack
Chinese 缝隙
  • 缝隙 (fèngxì)narrow crack
Dutch spleet
  • spleetnarrow crack
Esperanto fendaĵo
  • fendaĵonarrow crack
Finnish halkeama
  • halkeamanarrow crack
French fissure f fente, anfractuosité
  • fissure f fentenarrow crack
  • anfractuositénarrow crack
German Spalt, Spalte
  • Spaltnarrow crack
  • Spaltenarrow crack
  • Felsspaltnarrow crack
  • Felsritzenarrow crack
  • Mauerspaltnarrow crack
  • Mauerritzenarrow crack
Hebrew סדק, בקיע
  • סדק (sédek)narrow crack
  • בקיע (bekía)narrow crack
Hungarian hasadék, repedés
  • hasadéknarrow crack
  • repedésnarrow crack
Irish scáineadh
  • scáineadhnarrow crack
Italian fessura, fenditura
  • fessuranarrow crack
  • fendituranarrow crack
  • crepanarrow crack
Japanese 亀裂
  • 亀裂 (kiretsu)narrow crack
Latin rīma, crepātūra
  • rīmanarrow crack
  • crepātūranarrow crack
Persian شکاف, رخنه
  • شکاف (šekâf)narrow crack
  • رخنه (rexne)narrow crack
Polish szpara, rysa
  • szparanarrow crack
  • rysanarrow crack
  • szczelinanarrow crack
Portuguese fenda, fresta
  • fendanarrow crack
  • frestanarrow crack
Romanian spărtură, fisură
  • spărturănarrow crack
  • fisurănarrow crack
Russian тре́щина, расще́лина
  • тре́щина (tréščina)narrow crack
  • расще́лина (rasščélina)narrow crack
Slovak štrbina, škára
  • štrbinanarrow crack
  • škáranarrow crack
Spanish hendidura, hendedura
  • hendiduranarrow crack
  • hendeduranarrow crack
  • resquebrajaduranarrow crack
Swedish spricka, klyfta
  • sprickanarrow crack
  • klyftanarrow crack
  • skrevanarrow crack
Tagalog biyak
  • biyaknarrow crack
Turkish çatlak, yarık
  • çatlaknarrow crack
  • yarıknarrow crack
  • gediknarrow crack
Cite this entry
APA

crevice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crevice

MLA

“crevice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crevice. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crevice,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crevice.

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