crumble

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1. crumble - Noun

2. crumble - Verb

3. Crumble - Proper noun

Meaning

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. Anthony Sampson

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble. Alan Perlis

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. Eleanor Farjeon

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. George Bancroft

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. Swami Vivekananda

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find. Jeanette Winterson

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