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crumble

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crumble \Crum"ble\, v. i. To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish. If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. --Arbuthnot. The ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an empire crumbles (= loses power gradually ) ▪ The vast empire was beginning to crumble. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB away ▪ It was all crumbling away in front of him. ▪ The rafters were green and the floorboards ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar. vb. 1 To fall apart; to disintegrate. 2 To render into crumbs.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. fall apart; "the building crimbled after the explosion"; "Negociations broke down" [syn: crumple , tumble , break down , collapse ] break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling" [syn: fall apart ] fall into decay ...

Usage examples of crumble.

There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.

She took ambergris from her pack and crumbled it, rubbed the waxy green granules into the soles of her feet, her wrists.

I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors--heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.

Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.

A somersaulting shape, the pygmy killer was tossed beyond the crumbling mass of stone and dirt that entombed a dozen helpless people within the Aureole Mine.

The ostriches shut up in the planetwide aviary at Terra: those who lived in the sandpile because they had crumbled under the enormous psychological pressure suffered while emigrating.

The maid had set out five bone china plates holding salads that combined Bibb lettuce, avocado slices, and wedges of ripe pear with a crumbling of Gorgonzola.

Grace gripped his biceps, concentrating on holding tight to her self-control even though she could feel the foundation of resolve crumbling beneath her.

Sweet Judy Snakeyes crumbles in front of the armored skirts, then a coleopter named Death from Above, then another called Hanging Judge.

He reeled, and would have crumbled to the ground had not two or three others seized and steadied him.

Most edges crumbled and rounded off as if exposed to storms and climate changes for millions of years.

We must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost endless labyrinth of colossal, regular, and geometrically eurythmic stone masses which reared their crumbled and pitted crests above a glacial sheet not more than forty or fifty feet deep at its thickest, and in places obviously thinner.

Cities built there had crumbled before their time, and had been found suddenly deserted.

The close aspect of the moon as the galley drew near proved very disturbing to Carter, and he did not like the size and shape of the ruins which crumbled here and there.

And it was very odd that shingles so worm-eaten could survive, or bricks so crumbled still form a standing chimney.