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Definition of crump in English: crumpnoun krʌmpkrəmp A loud thudding sound, especially one made by an exploding bomb or shell. the crump of shells could be heard hours later Example sentencesExamples - Three or four more thunderous crumps echoed out over the surrounding forest.
- He heard a car skid and a crump as it hit something.
- On Sunday morning, we were woken by the muffled crump of a controlled explosion.
- Another crump sounded, and I was nearly shaken from my seat as the ship abruptly slid sideways, either a munitions dump had just been hit, or fuel.
- The media representation of this war will be from a distance: shots of the city skyline illuminated by the flashes of bomb blasts, the dull crump of explosions.
- Watching TV or whatever, you hear the shriek of the tyres losing it, followed by the crump of impacting metal.
- There was the dull crump of ignition followed by a fireball of considerable proportion.
- Preparation turned to execution when the explosives were detonated, resulting in a massive grey cloud and the loud crump of the explosion, which could be heard over four kilometres away.
- It disintegrated into the wall with a satisfying crump.
verb krʌmpkrəmp [no object]Make a loud, thudding sound. we heard the cannon crumping
Origin Mid 17th century: imitative. The original sense (as a verb) was 'munch, crunch', later 'hit hard' (used initially as a term in the game of cricket), and then the military sense 'bombard' (First World War). Rhymes bump, chump, clump, dump, flump, frump, gazump, grump, jump, lump, outjump, plump, pump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, ump, whump Definition of crump in US English: crumpnounkrəmpkrəmp A loud thudding sound, especially one made by an exploding bomb or shell. the crump of shells could be heard hours later Example sentencesExamples - Another crump sounded, and I was nearly shaken from my seat as the ship abruptly slid sideways, either a munitions dump had just been hit, or fuel.
- There was the dull crump of ignition followed by a fireball of considerable proportion.
- It disintegrated into the wall with a satisfying crump.
- On Sunday morning, we were woken by the muffled crump of a controlled explosion.
- Watching TV or whatever, you hear the shriek of the tyres losing it, followed by the crump of impacting metal.
- Preparation turned to execution when the explosives were detonated, resulting in a massive grey cloud and the loud crump of the explosion, which could be heard over four kilometres away.
- He heard a car skid and a crump as it hit something.
- The media representation of this war will be from a distance: shots of the city skyline illuminated by the flashes of bomb blasts, the dull crump of explosions.
- Three or four more thunderous crumps echoed out over the surrounding forest.
verbkrəmpkrəmp [no object]Make a loud, thudding sound. we heard the cannon crumping
Origin Mid 17th century: imitative. The original sense (as a verb) was ‘munch, crunch’, later ‘hit hard’ (used initially as a term in the game of cricket), and then the military sense ‘bombard’ (First World War). |