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crumble down

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  • crumble — 1 verb 1 (I, T) also crumble away to break apart into little pieces, or make something do this: Billy crumbled the bread in his fingers. 2 (I) if a building crumbles, it is old and starting to fall down: Britain s crumbling schools 3 (I) also… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • crumble — I. verb (crumbled; crumbling) Etymology: alteration of Middle English kremelen, frequentative of Old English gecrymian to crumble, from cruma Date: 1547 transitive verb to break into small pieces intransitive verb 1. to fall into small pieces ; …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • crumble — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, abrade, atomize, bate, be eaten away, beat, bite the dust, bray, break, break down, break up, brecciate, canker, cave in, collapse, come apart, come to dust, come unstuck, comminute, conk out, consume,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • crumble — v 1. fragment, break up, crumb, crack, splinter, shred, fritter; crush, break, shiver, powder, pulverize, triturate, comminute. 2. disintegrate, fall to pieces, fall apart, break down; collapse, tumble down, give way, break up, go to wrack and… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • crumble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. disintegrate, break up, fall to pieces; decay, degenerate. See destruction, deterioration, powderiness, weakness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. fall apart, disintegrate, break up; see break 3 , decay ,… …   English dictionary for students

  • crumble — verb the old barn is slowly crumbling Syn: disintegrate, fall apart, fall to pieces, fall down, break up, collapse, fragment; decay, fall into decay, deteriorate, degenerate, go to rack and ruin, decompose, rot, molder, perish …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • break down — verb 1. make ineffective (Freq. 3) Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination • Syn: ↑crush • Derivationally related forms: ↑breakdown • Hypernyms: ↑change, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • powder down — noun : modified down feathers in some birds (as herons, parrots, tinamous, frogmouths) that grow continuously and disintegrate at the ends * * * modified down feathers that continually crumble at the tips, producing a fine powder that forms a… …   Useful english dictionary

  • break down — Synonyms and related words: afflict, aggrieve, alphabetize, analyze, anatomize, anguish, arrange, assay, assort, bawl, beat down, bend, blow, blow down, blubber, boohoo, break, break up, bring down, bring low, bring to tears, bring to terms,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • break down — 1) his van broke down See break 1. 4) 2) pay negotiations broke down Syn: fail, collapse, founder, fall through, disintegrate; informal fizzle out 3) Vicky broke down, sobbing loudly Syn …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • break down — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To analyze] Syn. examine, investigate, dissect; see analyze 1 . 2. [To overcome] Syn. surmount, overwhelm, conquer; see defeat 1 , 2 . 3. [To malfunction] Syn. fail, stop, malfunction, go out of order, falter, misfire, give… …   English dictionary for students

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