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had 'croaked'!
cruel adj. 1 merciless, pitiless, hard-hearted, harsh, stony-hearted,
heartless, unsparing, callous, beastly, cold-blooded, ruthless,
unkind, hard: It was cruel of you to refuse to help. 2
ferocious, inhuman, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, savage,
bloodthirsty, vicious, sadistic, fiendish, diabolical, hellish,
atrocious, Neronian or Neronic or Neroic: His captors subjected
him to the cruellest tortures.
cruise v. 1 sail, coast, travel, journey, voyage; yacht: We cruise in
the Caribbean during the winter.
--n. 2 sail, voyage, journey, boat or yachting trip: I took a
three-day cruise around the Isle of Wight.
crumb n. fragment, morsel, bite, scrap, particle, shred, snippet,
sliver, bit, speck, scintilla, mote, molecule, atom: There
isn't a crumb of food in the house.
crumble v. disintegrate, fragment, break apart, break up, shiver, come
to pieces: Acid rain has caused the stone fa‡ade to crumble. In
the face of the attack, his resolve crumbled.
crumple v. wrinkle, crush, crease, rumple, mangle, crinkle: Your
jacket is all crumpled.
crunch v. 1 chew, bite, crush, grind, munch: He crunched the nuts
between his teeth.
--n. 2 moment of truth, decision time, crisis, critical moment,
showdown, crux, juncture: You can count on me when it comes to
the crunch.
crusade n. 1 campaign, expedition, holy war; jihad or jehad: He joined
the crusade against the Saracens.
--v. 2 campaign, war, battle; take up a cause, lobby, fight:
She is crusading for equal rights for women.
crush n. 1 break, smash, crunch, pulverize, shiver, splinter, pound,
grind: The vandals crushed the statue to bits with hammers. 2
crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle, rumple, mangle: The shirts