crumbly

crum·bly (kr

)

adj. crum·bli·er, crum·bli·est

Easily crumbled; friable.

crumbli·ness n.

crumbly [ˈkrʌmblɪ]

adj -blier, -bliest

easily crumbled or crumbling

crumbliness n

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Adj.

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

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crumbling
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friable
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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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