adj
Meaning 1
Hard or crusty; dry baked
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Examples
- a crump loaf
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Standard Lemma guide
crump
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kɹʌmp/
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homophone: Crump
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homophone: krump
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rhymes with -ʌmp
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CMU ARPABET: K R AH1 M P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Crooked; bent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A placename
An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Bay County, Michigan, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A placename
An unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A placename
A city in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
The sound of a muffled explosion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 8
To produce such a sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, intransitive
Qualifier: medical slang
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verb
Meaning 10
explode heavily or with a loud dull noise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: explode, burst
verb
Meaning 11
bombard with heavy shells
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: blast, shell
verb
Meaning 12
make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thud, scrunch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle
History
Etymology
See crumb.
From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.
* As an English surname, from the adjective crump (“crooked”). Compare Croom. * As a German and Dutch surname, Americanized from Krump (see Krumm and Ruhm) and Kramp.
Onomatopoeic.
Real reading context