1. Make a series of short fairly quiet cracking sounds
   "the fire crackled"; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl";
   - crepitate
    
2. Make a crushing or grinding noise
   "his shoes were crackling on the gravel";
   - crunch, scranch [dialect], scraunch [dialect], scrunch
    
3. To become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
   "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"

1. The sharp sound of snapping noises
   "The crackle of the burning logs filled the room";
   - crackling, crepitation
    
2. Glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
   "The antique shop specialized in rare crackle pieces";
   - crackleware, crackle china

1. Having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
   "a crackle glaze"

Derived forms: crackles, crackled, crackling

See also: fancy

Type of: alter, change, china, make noise, noise, rattle, resound, vary

Encyclopedia: Crackle