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▪ I. crumbling, vbl. n.|ˈkrʌmblɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb crumble.
a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 292, I naturally abhor the crumbling of Scripture into crumbs. 1810Southey Kehama ii. xv, He heard the crumbling of the pile.
2. concr. (pl.) Crumbled particles, débris.
1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 96 That Royal David..gathers up the crumblings of it. 1865Swinburne Atalanta 2231 As light dust and crumblings from mine urn.
▪ II. ˈcrumbling, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That crumbles; breaking into small particles.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 86 b, [That the ground] may be mellowed and made crumbling. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 139 The crumbling Clods. 1769Gray Jrnl. of Tour 5 Oct., A mass of crumbling slate. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. i. (1889) 6 A venerable old front of crumbling stone fronting the street. |