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- pronunciation:
- chIngk
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
a narrow crack; crevice; fissure.
a chink between two boards in the floor- synonyms:
- crack, cranny, crevice, fissure
- similar words:
- breach, cleft, crevasse, fracture, furrow, gash, groove, rift, slit
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| related words: |
aperture, fault, flaw, leak, opening |
adjective + (n.)chink
dark, fatal, light, narrow, perfect, potential, tiny, visible, wide
verb + (n.)chink
caulk, fill, find, hack, peer, seal
noun + (n.)chink
armor,
blind,
board,
break,
crack,
cranny,
curtain,
daylight,
door,
gap,
glass,
grinder,
industry,
lid,
light,
log,
machine,
metal,
rock,
seam,
skin,
sky,
sort,
stone,
wall,
winter
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
chinks, chinking, chinked |
| definition 1: |
to create chinks in.
- synonyms:
- crack
- similar words:
- break, cleave, furrow, gash, slit
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| definition 2: |
to plug up chinks in.
She chinked the walls of the log cabin.- synonyms:
- fill, plug up
- similar words:
- cement, close, plaster, stop up
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adverb + (v.)chink
away, thick
(v.)chink
+ noun
chenille, click, coin, crate, cube, filler, furnace, ice, jukebox, juniper, mortar, mud, plaster, remnant, tea
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