crack up

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar uma explosão de riso ou o ato de fazer alguém rir muito, ou ainda um colapso mental ou emocional.

A phrasal verb used to indicate bursting into laughter or causing someone to laugh, or to suffer a mental or emotional breakdown.

incontável · transitivo e intransitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Laugh uncontrollablyinformal

   To suddenly start laughing very hard, often in a situation where it is inappropriate.

   Rir sem parar

   • His joke made everyone crack up.
   • She cracked up during the serious meeting.
   • The comedian's performance caused the audience to crack up.

   Sinônimosbreak up

2. Suffer a mental breakdowninformal

   To become emotionally or mentally unstable due to stress or pressure.

   Pirar

   • He cracked up under the pressure of his job.
   • After months of overwork, she finally cracked up.
   • The constant criticism caused him to crack up.

   Sinônimosbreak downfall apartgo to pieceslose itsnap

3. Praise excessivelyinformalbritish

   To speak very highly of someone or something, often in an exaggerated way.

   Elogiar excessivamente

   • The critics cracked up the new movie as a masterpiece.
   • She cracked up her friend's cooking as the best she ever had.
   • He cracked up the new employee's skills to the manager.

   Sinônimosacclaimeulogizeextolhypelaudoverpraisepuff

   Antônimosbelittlecriticizedenigratedeprecatedisparage

Verbo basecrack