Definition of crumble
- marriages crumble
Crumble the cookies into small bits.
The recipe calls for the herbs to be crumbled.
bones so old they had crumbled to dust
She was extremely depressed after her marriage crumbled.
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First Known Use: 1547
in the meaning defined at transitive sense
See Words from the same yearatrophy, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, sink, worsen;
abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wane;
break down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefy;
droop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt;
go to pot, go to seed (or run to seed);
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1860
: to break (something) into small pieces
: to separate into many small pieces : to fall apart
: to break down completely : to stop functioning
crumbles : small pieces of something that has been crumbled
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