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crumble
Overview of verb crumble
The verb crumble has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse -- (fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down")
2. crumble, fall apart -- (break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling")
3. decay, crumble, delapidate -- (fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay")
Antonyms of verb crumble
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crumble
3 senses of crumble
Sense 1
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> change integrity
=> change
Sense 2
crumble, fall apart
=> disintegrate
=> change integrity
=> change
Sense 3
decay, crumble, delapidate
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb crumble
1 of 3 senses of crumble
Sense 3
decay, crumble, delapidate
=> deteriorate
=> corrode, rust
=> weather
=> erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away
=> wilt, droop
=> ruin
=> break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crumble
3 senses of crumble
Sense 1
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> change integrity
Sense 2
crumble, fall apart
=> disintegrate
Sense 3
decay, crumble, delapidate
=> change
'Cause To' of verb crumble
Derived Forms of verb crumble
Domain of verb crumble
Domain Terms of verb crumble
Familiarity of verb crumble
crumble used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb crumble
3 senses of crumble
Sense 1
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
EX: The business is going to crumble
Sense 2
crumble, fall apart
*> Something ----s
*> Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
decay, crumble, delapidate
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb crumble
3 senses of crumble
Sense 1
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
> change integrity
=> reform
=> polymerize, polymerise
=> polymerize, polymerise
=> explode, burst
=> explode, detonate, blow up, set off
=> cook
=> break up, disperse, scatter
=> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
=> pasteurize, pasteurise
=> condense
=> evaporate, vaporize, vaporise
=> burn, incinerate
=> blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
=> disintegrate
=> disintegrate, decay, decompose
=> thicken, inspissate
=> gasify, vaporize, vaporise, aerify
=> liquefy, flux, liquify
=> solidify
=> solidify
=> crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise
=> dissolve, resolve, break up
=> demulsify
=> jellify, jelly
=> jellify
=> separate
=> crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Sense 2
crumble, fall apart
> disintegrate
=> powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise
=> powderize, pulverize, pulverise, powderise
=> run, unravel
=> crumble, fall apart
=> digest
=> dissolve
=> crash, break up, break apart
Sense 3
decay, crumble, delapidate
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb crumble
Sense 1
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> change integrity
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Sense 2
crumble, fall apart
=> disintegrate
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Sense 3
decay, crumble, delapidate
=> change
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Grep of verb crumble
crumble
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