MEANING
To produce a succession of brief snapping sounds.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- fire crackles
- crackling interference
On the page
The receiver crackled beneath the distant voice.
Word forms
- Base
- crackle
- Third-person present
- crackles
- Past tense
- crackled
- Past participle
- crackled
- Present participle
- crackling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- crackle / crackles
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crackling
- Present perfect
- have/has crackled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crackling
- Past
- crackled
- Past continuous
- was/were crackling
- Past perfect
- had crackled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crackling
- Future
- will crackle
- Future continuous
- will be crackling
- Future perfect
- will have crackled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crackling
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: crackle; crackles; crackled; crackled; crackling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: crackles.
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