Synset

hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

sample sentences

"The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
The fighter managed to %s his opponent

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

cracking

semantic pointers

hypernym

hit