Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crackling: specifically applied, in pathology, to the pathognomic sound of the lungs in pneumonia.
- In entomology, having the power of crepitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.
- adjective (Med.) a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.
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- adjective
crackling ;rattling
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Examples
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The crepitant woods of the Deep South were foreboding enough in daylight, the Spanish moss stringing down from the oaks like the disemboweled spirits of ghosts.
Sanctuary 2009
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For the following hour, we pursued this occupation with silent intensity, the quiet of the room broken only by the dry, crepitant rustle of the turning pages, and the occasional muttered complaint from my companion, who periodically avowed that he would “sooner be wrassling a passel of wildcats than wading through all this infernal writing.”
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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On examining the chest with the stethoscope, the crepitant ronchus was heard in the upper part of each lung.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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The middle lobe was crepitant, though soaked with black fluid; several impacted lobules were scattered throughout its substance.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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The upper lobe was crepitant, though infiltrated with carbon into the interlobular cellular tissue.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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The first warning she was given was a sudden impact on a high branch of an oak-tree a yard or two from where she stood, and the falling to earth, delayed by the thick crepitant layers of green-gold, sun-soaked leaves, of a cricket ball.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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They looked solemnly into the crepitant blaze of the new fire.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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"It's a puzzle with three sides to it," he thought, as he descended the crepitant stairs, "The Bookshop, the Octagon, and Weintraub's; but that book seems to be the clue to the whole business."
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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(The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks) Rien va plus!
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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"The unction of my deep damnation abide with ye, my children, now and forevermore!" he chanted, showering sparks from crepitant finger-tips; and bounded lightly into the elevator.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906
whichbe commented on the word crepitant
Having or making a crackling sound.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word crepitant
...the film ending now, to sombre crepitant chords...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word crepitant
Citation on charlock.
August 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word crepitant
"They trooped through hospital rooms and examined patients, made diagnoses, heard the crepitant rales of a diseased lung, felt the alien and inhuman marble texture of a tumor..."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 64
February 11, 2009