CRISPING Synonyms

• cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

• United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

• English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

• English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

• cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle

• cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

• cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)

• severely critical

• cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

• make brown and crisp by heating

• the sharp sound of snapping noises

• glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface

• having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware

• make a crackling sound

• make a crushing noise

• to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks

• a squeaking sound

• make a high-pitched, screeching noise

• the sound of something crunching

• a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)

• the act of crushing

• make a crushing noise

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind

• make a dry crackling sound

• take illegally

• forage food

• a slight but appreciable amount

• a pale or subdued color

• affect as in thought or feeling

• color lightly

• a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

• a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

• a piece of dried bovine dung

• a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

• a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

• a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

• electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

• (golf) a low running approach shot

• the act of chipping something

• break off (a piece from a whole)

• cut a nick into

• play a chip shot

• form by chipping

• break a small piece off from

• an angular or rounded shape made by folding

• a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

• a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

• make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic

• make wrinkled or creased

• scrape gently

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

• make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• tender and brittle

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• brief and to the point; effectively cut short

• (of hair) in small tight curls

• (of hair) in small tight curls

• devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain

• covered with frost

• pleasantly cold and invigorating