"tocrack" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tocracks [present, singular, third-person], tocracking [participle, present], tocracked [participle, past], tocracked [past]
Etymology: From Middle English tocraken (“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”), from Old English cracian (“to make a cracking sound, crack”), from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), equivalent to to- + crack. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|tocraken||to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture}} Middle English tocraken (“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”), {{der|en|ang|cracian||to make a cracking sound, crack}} Old English cracian (“to make a cracking sound, crack”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*krakōną||to crack, crackle, shriek}} Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), {{prefix|en|to|crack}} to- + crack Head templates: {{en-verb}} tocrack (third-person singular simple present tocracks, present participle tocracking, simple past and past participle tocracked)
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-tocrack-en-verb--VhQWCr5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with to-

Inflected forms

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