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verb undergo decrepitation and crackle
verb to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops
originBorrowed from Medieval Latin dēcrepitātus, perfect passive participle of dēcrepitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin dē- + crepitō.
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