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crumbly

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crum·bly  (krmbl)
adj. crum·bli·er, crum·bli·est
Easily crumbled; friable.
crumbli·ness n.
crumbly [ˈkrʌmblɪ]
adj -blier, -bliest
easily crumbled or crumbling
crumbliness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.crumbly - easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies"
friable
breakable - capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully"
crumbly
adjective brittle, short (of pastry), powdery, friable The soil is dry and crumbly.
Translations
crumbly [ˈkrʌmblɪ] ADJ (crumblier (compar) (crumbliest (superl))) [earth] → quebradizo; [cheese] → que se desmenuza con facilidad (Culin) [mixture] → quebradizo (US) [pastry] → sobado
crumbly [ˈkrʌmbli]
adj [texture, consistency] → friable; [soil] → friable; [cheese, biscuit, chocolate] → qui s'émiette facilement; [pastry] → friable
n (pejorative) (= old person) → vieux croulant m >
crumbly
adj (+er) stone, earth → bröckelig; cake, bread → krümelig, bröselig
crumbly [ˈkrʌmblɪ] adj → friabile
crumbly [ˈkrʌmblɪ] adj → friabile


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But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
He listened greedily to the quail calling, and laughed outright, once, in sheer joy, at a tiny chipmunk that fled scolding up a bank, slipping on the crumbly surface and falling down, then dashing across the road under his horse's nose and, still scolding, scrabbling up a protecting oak.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
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 foot-paths it still lay as white as when it fell.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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