to a crisp
idiom
: to a state of being hard, dry, and easily broken
The toast had been burned to a crisp.
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Farke took a lighter to that canvas and burnt everyone’s assumptions to a crisp.
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
Dwight sets the logs ablaze, watching dispassionately as Dunmire burns to a crisp.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Burns’ American Revolution also burns to a crisp the prevailing notion of the Great Man of American History.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
Back then, it’s thought, Venus would have been at a tipping point: either temperate and waterlogged, or burnt to a crisp.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
Dwight sets the logs ablaze, watching dispassionately as Dunmire burns to a crisp.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Burns’ American Revolution also burns to a crisp the prevailing notion of the Great Man of American History.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
Back then, it’s thought, Venus would have been at a tipping point: either temperate and waterlogged, or burnt to a crisp.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for to a crisp
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“To a crisp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20a%20crisp. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.
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