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Definition
a long, narrow crack; or its creation — especially in the ground or in rockor:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation
- The earthquake opened a small fissure across the road.
fissure = a long narrow crack
- The crisis is creating a fissure in the coalition government.
- She is determined to mend the fissures that are splitting the family.
- Lava is flowing from a fissure that is ten miles east of the main crater.
- The city is built above earthquake fissures.
- The horses had been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew in the fissures of the rocks,James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of The Mohicans
- Some of the fissures near the cliffs were a yard wide.Charles Darwin -- The Voyage of the Beagle
- When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee
- The wear and tear of spring storms and melting snows had underwashed the bank and in one place had made a small cave out of a narrow fissure.Jack London -- White Fang
- The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery [social] pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Ice was everywhere, in the valleys, in the cracks of stones, in fissures of the rock, in his hair, in his eyebrows.David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness
- I pulled my right ax from the ice, reached up, and twisted the pick into a crooked half-inch fissure until it jammed.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- This is how my mother must have felt when she saw the first shaft of sunlight penetrate the fissure in her stone prison walls.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- With a sharp boom the shaft of stone cracked before them, a fissure splitting it from top to bottom.Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
- Her body was as gray as ash, fissured with black lines like volcanic lava.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- Everything, finally, unfolded in a place resembling a deep, inaccessible fissure.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- His javelin slammed into the earth where Artemis had been a split second before, and a fissure opened in the rocks.Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- Even if you're blasting miles away, there are bedrock fissures that can be weakened.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- Harry saw a fissure in the cliff into which dark water was swirling.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
fissure = split
fissures = cracks
fissure = long narrow crack
fissures = long narrow cracks n the earth
fissures = long narrow cracks
fissures = long narrow cracks
fissure = narrow crack
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