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to crumb

to crumb

1 4.8
To remove small bits of bread from a table or cloth
  • verb
  • /krʌm/
translation icon : empanar
  • Crumbing the table gave one time to think, and if Miss Willerton were going to write a story, she had to think about it first.

The first thing I'm gonna do is crumb, crumb up all the cake.

Examples

  • The chef demonstrated how to crumb the fish before frying it for extra flavor.

  • So I'll get like, I'll get like, like protein based bread and I'll toast it and then I'll crumble it so it's like bread crumbs.

  • The first thing I'm gonna do is crumb, crumb up all the cake.

    Rosanna Pansino

  • We add this, we crumble it up, and we also add this spice.

  • All right, well, we are going to get into our inner child and crumble some potatoes.

  • No almond or coconut flour, and they still crumb like that?

    Blog text (33)

  • Miss Willerton always crumbed the table.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • So all I'm going to do is just take it in here and I just crumble it up and you'll get some sprouts.

  • To make a crispy topping for the casserole, you should crumb the leftover bread into small pieces.

  • She learned how to crumb the cookies for a beautiful dessert presentation.

Synonyms

to bread
vsto crumb
8 6.9

To cover food with small crumbs before cooking, usually to fry or bake

also covers by breaking or removing small pieces rather than only coating
to dredge
vsto crumb
2 4.7

To coat food lightly with flour or breadcrumbs before cooking

is narrower by focusing on small pieces and breaking as well as coating

Compounds

crumb cake
  • US
2 2.0

A sweet cake with a thick crumbly topping often eaten with coffee

crumb grinder
7.6

A person or machine that grinds bread into small pieces for cooking

crumb snatcher
  • Informal
8.7

A person or animal who quietly takes leftover food

How Broken

to pulverize
  • US
8 7.4
to crumb
1 4.8
to break
∞ 1.0
to split
513 1.3

Surface Forms

crumb infinitive
crumbed past
crumbed past participle
crumbing present participle
crumbs third person singular

Etymology

The verb crumb comes from the noun crumb and is like the word crumble, so to 'crumb' something is to make, remove, or cover it with small pieces of bread.