Meaning & use
Fissured
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Marked by narrow cracks or clefts; split or divided by fissures.
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The fissured rock face made climbing treacherous.
Years of drought left the fissured ground crisscrossed with deep cracks.
A note on using this word
Can also be used as a verb, as in 'the drought fissured the clay soil,' describing the process of cracking.
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