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# crumble

verb (crumble, crumbles, crumbled, crumbling); noun (a crumble, crumbles)

«crumble» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To crumble is to break into small pieces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#m1)
2. To crumble something is to break it into small pieces with your fingers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#m2)
3. A crumble is a baked pudding of fruit covered with a crumbly mix of flour, butter and sugar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#m3)
4. To crumble can mean to slowly fall apart or fail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#m4)

### In the lessons

In cooking lessons pupils rub flour and butter into crumbs to make an apple or rhubarb crumble. In science weathering makes rocks crumble over time; dry soil crumbles. In stories old castle walls crumble. Phrases: apple crumble, crumble into pieces, crumbling walls, that's the way the cookie crumbles (that's life).

### Examples

- The dry biscuit crumbled in my hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x1)
- Crumble the cheese over the salad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x2)
- We made apple crumble with custard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x3)
- The old castle walls are crumbling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x4)
- Frost and rain make rocks crumble. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x5)
- Crumble the bread for the ducks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x6)
- His sandcastle crumbled when the wave came. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x7)
- 'Crumble those three loaves for the ants,' he said. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb (crumbled). The noun «crumble» (pudding) is mainly British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand; in the USA a similar dish is called a «crisp» or «cobbler». Small pieces are «crumbs»; «crumbly» describes food that crumbles easily.

## In Jewish tradition

In Isaiah the earth itself breaks into pieces.

**Interpretation.** It is read as part of a vision of the end of days, when God's judgment shakes the world.

### Examples

- The earth is broken, broken down, the earth is crumbled in pieces, the earth trembleth and tottereth; (Prophets ISA.24.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crumble/#x1)

### Note

Regular verb (crumbled). The noun «crumble» (pudding) is mainly British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand; in the USA a similar dish is called a «crisp» or «cobbler». Small pieces are «crumbs»; «crumbly» describes food that crumbles easily.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crumble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crumble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crumble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crumble.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «crumble» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crumble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crumble» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/crumble.html) on Mova free.