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单词 crumble
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crumblen.

/ˈkrʌmb(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1500s cromble.
Etymology: In sense 1, apparently diminutive of crumb: compare Dutch kruimel , Low German krömel , Middle German krümel ( < *krumila ), small crumb. In sense 2 treated as verbal noun < crumble v.
1. A small or tiny crumb of anything friable; a particle of dust, etc. Obsolete or dialect. rare.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [noun] > loose texture > lack of cohesion > quality of being friable or crumbly > particle(s) of
crumble1577
crumbling1660
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 146v They so shake the milke, as they seuer the thinnest part of from the thicke, which at the fyrst gather together in little crombles.
1646 J. Mayne Serm. Unity 26 This diversity of Tongues at first broke the world into the severall crumbles and portions of men.
1703 in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1704) 24 1552 The Powder or Crumbles of 'em is what we call Bik-stone.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life 43 Thou shalt eat of the crumbles of bread to thy fill.
2.
a. Crumbling substance; anything of crumbling consistency; fine debris. rare.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [noun] > loose texture > lack of cohesion > quality of being friable or crumbly > substance
crumble1860
1860 N. Hawthorne Transformation III. xii. 187 She had trodden lightly over the crumble of old crimes.
1883 R. Jefferies Story Heart i. 5 The crumble of dry chalky earth I took up and let fall through my fingers.
b. Cookery. Food, such as bread or a mixture of flour and fat, in the form of crumbs; a dish made from such crumbs together with fruit, esp. apple crumble. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > other fruit dishes
figee1381
garnadec1440
gayledea1450
strawberry cream1523
strawberry shortcake1523
amber pudding1695
fufu1740
tum tum1790
poi1798
fig-cake1837
compote1845
ambrosia1867
summer pudding1875
schalet1884
charoset1885
angels' food1891
stuffed olive1897
chartreuse1900
crisp1916
guacamole1920
fruit cocktail1922
pimiento olive1925
fruit cup1931
crumble1947
matoke1959
turon1972
guac1983
bumbleberry1991
1947 M. Given Mod. Encycl. Cooking I. 727 Apple crumble.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 589/1 Canadian or ‘crumble’ topping for pies.
1958 J. Hawthorne Myst. Blue Tomatoes xiv. 92 For ‘afters’ to-day she made them all an apple crumble.
1958 J. Hawthorne Myst. Blue Tomatoes xiv. 92 Her crumbles were delicious.
1958 Listener 12 June 995/1 Rhubarb crumble pudding... Rhubarb crumble.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

crumblev.

/ˈkrʌmb(ə)l/
Forms: α. Middle English kremele, 1500s crymble, 1500s–1700s crimble; β. 1500s cromble, croomble, 1500s– crumble.
Etymology: The current form crumble is known only from late in the 16th cent.; being evidently an assimilation to crumb , crumbly , etc. of the earlier crymble , crimble , the type being an Old English *crymelen ( < *krumilôn ), < cruma crumb: compare crumble n. So Dutch kruimelen, German krümeln, Low German krömeln to crumble.
1.
a. transitive. To break down into small crumbs; to reduce to crumbs or small fragments.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crumble
crumbc1430
offe?1440
undurec1440
crima1450
crumblea1475
murla1525
mool1595
shatter1891
a1475 [implied in: Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 36 Kremelyd sewet of schepe. (at crumbled adj.)].
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Lii/2 To Crimble, comminuere.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xliii. 120 Commaunded him to crimble or soke it.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 7 Bread must be distributed, not crumbled.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 80 You may crumble White Bread instead of Biskets.
1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. i. 8 Moisture softens and crumbles the shale.
b. To strew or scatter as crumbs.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)]
to-shedc888
skairc1175
skaila1400
disparklec1449
scatter?c1450
spartlec1475
sprattlea1500
distribute?c1510
disperge1530
shudderc1540
crumble1547
pour1574
sperse1580
disject1581
spatter1582
distract1589
sparflec1600
esparse1625
fan1639
disperse1654
sparge1786
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xlviii Crymble them into a pynt of reed wyne.
1803 Jrnl. Excurs. Swiss Landscapes While cabins, single or in clusters, have been crumbled over it.
c. figurative.
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1632 G. Herbert Church Porch xii O crumble not away thy souls fair heap.
1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 81 You are crumbled into a thousand Sects.
1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 43 To avoid frittering and crumbling down the attention.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. ii. 75 Sufficient..to crumble the mythical theory of miracles into the dust.
2. intransitive. To fall asunder in small crumbs or particles; to become pulverized.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crumble
grushc1420
crumb1546
crumble1577
shalder1577
murl1600
slack1700
shatter1733
fall1743
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1773/2 Bulwarkes, whereof the filling..did crimble away.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 32 The bread is very drye, and croombleth lyke Sand or Asshes.
1602 Bp. M. Smith Learned Serm. Worcester 39 Shal it not breake, & crumble betweene your fingers?
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata Introd. 2 Marbles with their deepest Inscriptions crumble away.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 256 Their [stones'] edges crimble off.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 224 The earth crumbled under our horses' feet.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire viii. 149 Ready to crumble at a touch.
figurative.1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xi. 404 They crumbled into severall divisions amongst themselves.1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 120 His influence was crumbling away.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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