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📖 Определения и значения для слова crumble

📒 to break or break something into very small pieces

  • Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
  • crumble something Crumble the cheese over the salad.
  • She crumbled the dry earth into fine powdery dust.

📒 if a building or piece of land is crumbling, parts of it are breaking off

  • buildings crumbling into dust
  • crumbling stonework
  • The cliff is gradually crumbling away.

📒 to begin to fail or get weaker or to come to an end

  • a crumbling business/relationship
  • crumble away All his hopes began to crumble away.
  • crumble into/to something The empire finally crumbled into dust.

📒 that is the situation and we cannot change it, so we must accept it

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