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- Dictionarycrumb/krʌm/
noun
- 1. a small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit: "she brushed some cake crumbs off her dress"
- 2. a very small amount of something: "the Budget provided few crumbs of comfort"
verb
- 1. cover (food) with breadcrumbs: "while the sweet potato is cooking, crumb the fish"
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CRUMB definition: 1. a very small piece of bread, cake, or biscuit 2. a small amount of something: 3. a very small…. Learn more.
How to use crumb in a sentence. a small fragment especially of something baked (such as bread); a porous aggregate of soil particles; bit… See the full definition
a small particle or portion of anything; fragment; bit. Synonyms: speck, sliver, morsel, shred, scrap. the soft inner portion of a bread ( crust ). crumbs, a cake topping made of sugar, flour, butter, and spice, usually crumbled on top of the raw batter and baked with the cake.
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. You can also talk about other, non-edible types of crumbs, like the crumb of wisdom in an otherwise silly movie or the crumb of information a detective finds at a crime scene.
Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut or eat them. I stood up, brushing crumbs from my trousers. American English : crumb / ˈkrʌm /
CRUMB meaning: 1. a very small piece of bread, cake, or biscuit 2. a small amount of something: 3. a very small…. Learn more.
n. 1. A very small piece broken from a baked item, such as a cookie, cake, or bread. 2. A small fragment, scrap, or portion: eraser crumbs; not a crumb of kindness for you. 3. The soft inner portion of bread. 4. Slang A contemptible, untrustworthy, or loathsome person. v. crumbed, crumb·ing, crumbs. v.tr. 1.