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CRUMBLY (crumblier, crumbliest)

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Irregular inflected forms: crumblier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, crumbliest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crumbly mean? 

CRUMBLY (adjective)
  The adjective CRUMBLY has 1 sense:

1. easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powderplay

  Familiarity information: CRUMBLY used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CRUMBLY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: crumblier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: crumbliest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder

Synonyms:

crumbly; friable

Context example:

crumbly cookies

Similar:

breakable (capable of being broken or damaged)

Derivation:

crumb (small piece of e.g. bread or cake)

crumbliness (excessive breakableness)


 Context examples 


But there is a bunch of oxygen: The lunar regolith - the crumbly top layer of dirt and rubble on the Moon's surface - is loaded with it.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the footpaths it still lay as white as when it fell.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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