1 to break or break sth into very small pieces:
[V] Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble. * [VN] Crumble the cheese over the salad.
2 [V] if a building or piece of land is crumbling, parts of it are breaking off:
buildings crumbling into dust * crumbling stonework * The cliff is gradually crumbling away. * They live in a crumbling old mansion.
3 [V] ~ (into / to sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for crumble is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is crumble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, crumble is tagged as verb.
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