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crump.

The sound of a muffled explosion.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɹʌmp/
  1. The sound of a muffled explosion.

Where this word comes from

Onomatopoeic.

verb/kɹʌmp/
  1. To produce such a sound.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Onomatopoeic.

adj/kɹʌmp/
  1. Hard or crusty; dry baked

    Scotland · UK · dialectal
Where this word comes from

See crumb.

adj/kɹʌmp/
  1. Crooked; bent.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/kɹʌmp/
  1. To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).

    US · intransitive
Where this word comes from

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.

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