Synonyms for fissure
ˈfɪʃ ərfis·sure

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1. crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chapnoun

   a long narrow depression in a surface

   Synonyms:
   go, feller, cracking, fracture, cuss, whirl, fling, sally, blighter, crack, wisecrack, gent, quip, pass, tornado, cleft, offer, snap, crevice, chap, scissure, cranny, gap, crack cocaine, bloke, fellow, fella, shot, lad

2. crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissurenoun

   a long narrow opening

   Synonyms:
   go, cracking, fracture, whirl, fling, sally, crack, wisecrack, quip, pass, tornado, cleft, offer, snap, crevice, chap, scissure, cranny, gap, crack cocaine, shot

3. fissureverb

   (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes

   Synonyms:
   scissure, chap, cranny, crack, cleft, crevice

4. fissureverb

   break into fissures or fine cracks

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1. • Crack

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1. fissurenoun

   Synonyms:
   cleft, crevice, chink, crack, cranny, break, breach, gap, interstice, opening, chasm, rift, fracture

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1. List of paraphrases for "fissure":

   crack, cleft, rift

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How to use fissure in a sentence?

1. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory:

   It's optimistic to think that this is the last fissure we're going to see.

2. Hiker Karen Blasing:

   It was clear no one should be on that rock with the huge fissure, we stayed back, but many others were unconcerned and dangerously taking chances.

3. Tina Neal:

   The situation down there remains dynamic and as we've been saying for days now the outbreaks can continue to occur both uprift and downrift of the existing fissure system, or the existing fissures could be reactivated.