| 单词 | crumble |
| 释义 | crumble (once / 683 pages) v To crumble is to come apart into tiny pieces. If the doughnuts you bring to work crumble before you get there, you co-workers will have nothing but crumbs to snack on. Baked goods seem to crumble easily, but other things tend to crumble too: old houses, over time; sand castles; fragile ruins; and art objects made from clay. Anything that falls apart, especially into small bits, can be said to crumble. The root of the word is the Old English gecrymman, "to break into crumbs," which in turn comes from cruma, "crumb or fragment." WORD FAMILYcrumble: crumbled, crumbles, crumbling USAGE EXAMPLESThere are no crumbling tiles or unlit corners. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The Bible, its pages browned and frayed at their edges, seemed liable to crumble at the slightest touch. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) So he and Houmam Saad, his Syrian colleague, spent four days flying a drone with a robot camera over the crumbled arches and temples. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1v break or fall apart into fragments The cookies crumbled The Sphinx is crumbling Syn|Hyper fall apart disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity 2v fall apart the building crumbled after the explosion Syn|Hyper break down, collapse, crumple, tumble change integrity change in physical make-up 3v fall into decay or ruin Syn|Hypo|Hyper decay, dilapidate deteriorate become worse or disintegrate corrode, rustbecome destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid weatherchange under the action or influence of the weather eat at, erode, gnaw, gnaw at, wear awaybecome ground down or deteriorate droop, wiltbecome limp ruinfall into ruin break, bust, fall apart, wear, wear outgo to pieces go to pot, go to the dogsbecome ruined eat away, fretwear away or erode wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thindeteriorate through use or stress fray, frazzlewear away by rubbing change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature |
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