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/krʌm/

noun
- 1. a small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit: "she brushed some cake crumbs off her dress"
- ▪ the soft inner part of a loaf of bread: "a morsel of crumb will often tempt a chub"
- 2. a very small amount of something: "the Budget provided few crumbs of comfort"
- ▪ an unfair and inadequate share of something large: "a multi-billion dollar franchise and the family of the creator doesn't even get crumbs from the table"
- 3. an objectionable or contemptible person: informal, derogatory North American "he's an absolute crumb"
- 4. granulated rubber, usually made from recycled car tyres.
verb
- 1. cover (food) with breadcrumbs: "while the sweet potato is cooking, crumb the fish"
Word Origin Old Englishcruma, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kruim and German Krume. The final -b was added in the 16th century, perhaps from crumble but also influenced by words such as dumb, where the original final -b is retained although no longer pronounced.
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The Old English root is cruma, "crumb," and it's thought that the silent b was influenced by words like dumb. "Crumb."

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Crumb is a noun that means a very small piece of bread, cake, or biscuit, or a small amount of something. Learn how to use crumb in sentences and see synonyms, related words, and translations.
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Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut or eat them.
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A crumb is a very tiny piece of food. Some recipes instruct you to top a dish with bread crumbs before you bake it. Crumbs are what you're left with after finishing a box of cookies or a bag of tortilla chips — the bits that are too small to eat.
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Crumb definition: a small particle of bread, cake, etc., that has broken off.. See examples of CRUMB used in a sentence.
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