creux, n.m., hollow, cavity; pit, hole, chasm; gutter, delve; mold; mortar, trough; pit of the stomach. — planté d’arbres; dell planted with trees. — profond dans une mine; groove in a mine. Le — de la main; the hollow of the hand. Il a un bon —; he has a fine bass voice. — d’un vaisseau (nav.); depth of a ship’s hold. — d’une voile; cavity of a sail (which retains the wind).
creu-x, -se, adj., hollow, cavernous; deep; empty, unsubstantial, airy, fantastical, chimerical, extravagant. Des yeux —; eyes sunk in the head. Avoir les joues —ses; to have hollow cheeks. Il a le ventre —; his belly is empty. Un fossé — de trois pieds; a ditch three feet deep. Esprit —; cerveau —; cracked-brain, empty head. Pensées —ses; airy notions. Viande —se; frothy, unsubstantial food. Songer —; to be in a brown study.
crevaille, n.f., guzzling, gormandizing, stuffing; tuck out, blow out.
crevaison, n.m., puncture (bicycle).
crevasse, n.f., crevice, chink, rift, crack; gap, cranny; (vet.) malt-worm, cratches. Des —s aux mains; chaps.
crevasser, v.a., to split, to crack; to chap; to make cracks.
se crevasser, v.r., to crack, to split, to gape, to become chapped.
crevé, n.m., -e, n.f., (l.ex.) very fat man; bloated fellow. Petit —; fast young fellow; one used up, done up.
crevé, n.m., opening, slash (in sleeves).
crève-cœur, n.m., (—) heart-break, heart-breaking thing, heart-sore; heart-rending thing.