Fissure
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English
Noun
Fissure (plural Fissures)Verb
Fissure (third-person singular simple present fissures, present participle fissuring, simple past and past participle fissured)
- To split forming fissures.
Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, amputate, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, arroyo, ax, between brain, bisect, box canyon, brain stem, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, broach, burst, bust, butcher, caesura, canyon, carve, cavity, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, chop, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come apart, come unstuck, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, cwm, defile, dell, dichotomize, diencephalon, dike, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, dura mater, endbrain, excavation, excise, exfoliate, fall to pieces, fault, flaw, flume, fly open, folia, forebrain, fornix, fracture, frontal lobe, furrow, gap, gape, gash, give away, give way, glial cells, globus pallidus, gorge, gray matter, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gyrus, hack, halve, hew, hiatus, hindbrain, hippocampus, hole, hypothalamus, incise, incision, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, jigsaw, joint, kloof, lacuna, lance, lay open, leak, lenticular nucleus, letup, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, lull, mantle, medulla oblongata, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, moat, myelencephalon, neopallium, notch, nullah, occipital lobe, ope, open, open up, opening, optic chiasm, pallium, pare, parietal lobe, part, pass, passage, pause, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, pons, prune, ravine, rend, rent, reticular system, rhombencephalon, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, saw, scale, schism, scissor, scissure, seam, separate, sever, slash, slice, slit, slot, snap, snip, splinter, split, spread, spread out, spring a leak, spring open, start, subthalamus, sunder, suspension, swing open, tap, tear, tear open, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, throw open, trench, valley, ventricle, vermis, void, wadi, white matter, whittle
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɪ.ʃɚ/
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
Fissure f. (plural Fissures)
Verb
Fissure