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crumble
English
Alternative forms
- crimble (dialectal)
Etymology
From earlier crymble, crimble, from Middle English *crymblen, kremelen, from Old English *crymlan (“to crumble”), from *crymel (“a small crumb; crumble”), diminutive of Old English cruma (“crumb”), equivalent to crumb +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kruimelen (“to crumble”), German Low German krömmeln (“to crumble”), German Krümel, diminutive of German Krume, German krümeln, krümmeln (“to crumble”). Alteration of vowel due to analogy with crumb.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?k??mb?l/, [?k??mb??l], [?k??mbl?]
- Rhymes: -?mb?l
Verb
crumble (third-person singular simple present crumbles, present participle crumbling, simple past and past participle crumbled)
- (intransitive, often figuratively) To fall apart; to disintegrate.
- The empire crumbled when the ruler's indiscretions came to light.
- (transitive) To break into crumbs.
- We crumbled some bread into the water.
- (transitive) To mix (ingredients such as flour and butter) in such a way as to form crumbs.
- Using your fingers, crumble the ingredients with the fingertips, lifting in an upward motion, until the mixture is sandy and resembles large breadcrumbs.
Translations
Noun
crumble (countable and uncountable, plural crumbles)
- A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.
- Synonyms: crisp, crunch
Translations
Further reading
- crumble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Clumber
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English crumble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?œm.bœl/, /k?œ?bl/
Noun
crumble m (plural crumbles)
- (France) crumble (dessert)
Spanish
Noun
crumble m (plural crumbles)
- crumble
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scatter
English
Etymology
From Middle English scateren, skateren, (also schateren, see shatter), from Old English *sceaterian, probably from a dialect of Old Norse. Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split, shatter”). Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek ?????????? (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). Doublet of shatter.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skæt?/
- (General American) enPR: sk?t??r, IPA(key): /?skæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?(?)
- Hyphenation: scat?ter
Verb
scatter (third-person singular simple present scatters, present participle scattering, simple past and past participle scattered)
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- The crowd scattered in terror.
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
- Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- to scatter hopes or plans
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
Synonyms
- (disperse): See also Thesaurus:disperse
Derived terms
- scatterbrain
- scatterplot
- scattershot
Translations
Noun
scatter (countable and uncountable, plural scatters)
- The act of scattering or dispersing.
- A collection of dispersed objects.
- 2006, Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 84
- 2015, Ian Shennan, Antony J. Long, Benjamin P. Horton, Handbook of Sea-Level Research, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 19
- 2006, Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 84
Further reading
- scatter at OneLook Dictionary Search
- scatter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- scatter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
References
Anagrams
- tracest
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