MEANING
To produce a succession of slight crackling sounds.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- crepitating fire
- crepitate softly
On the page
Dry leaves crepitated beneath the slow-moving shape.
The small fire crepitated in the otherwise silent room.
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Related words
Word forms
- Base
- crepitate
- Past tense
- crepitated
- Past participle
- crepitated
- Present participle
- crepitating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- crepitate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crepitating
- Present perfect
- have/has crepitated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crepitating
- Past
- crepitated
- Past continuous
- was/were crepitating
- Past perfect
- had crepitated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crepitating
- Future
- will crepitate
- Future continuous
- will be crepitating
- Future perfect
- will have crepitated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crepitating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: crepitate; crepitates; crepitated; crepitated; crepitating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: crepitates.
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