Crumble

Definition

crumble /'krʌmbl/ v ၁။ ~ (sth) (into/ to sth); ~ (sth) (up) (တစ္စစီျဖစ္ေအာင္) ဖဲ့သည္၊ ေျခသည္။ (တစ္စစီ) ပဲ့သည္။ crumble one's bread (up) ❍ crumbling walls (ie that are breaking apart) ❍ buildings crumbling into rubble. ၂။ ~ (into/ to sth) တစ္စတစ္စႏွင့္ ၿပိဳလဲပ်က္စီးသည္။ The great empire began to crumble. ❍ hopes that crumbled to dust ❍ His power was crumbling away. n [U,C] ( Brit ) အေမႊးအႀကိဳင္၊ ေထာပတ္၊ သၾကား ေရာအုပ္၍ ခ်က္ထားေသာ သစ္သီးဟင္း။ apple/ rhubarb crumble. ❏ crumbly /'krʌmbli/ adj ေၾကလြယ္ေသာ။ ေျခရလြယ္ ေသာ။ crumbly bread/ cheese/ soil ❍ a dry crumbly texture.

Examples

1. The soft earth of the riverbank crumbled under his feet.
2. Crumble the biscuits over the fruit mixture.
3. Part of the roof had rotted away and the exposed plaster was beginning to crumble.
4. My determination crumbled as soon as I saw her.
5. The government seemed powerless to prevent its weak economy from crumbling further.