as in to explode
to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure
one aerial bomb failed to crump as it landed
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Recent Examples of crump
And then, to add insult to electrical injury, my longtime beloved halogen standing light next to my reading chair finally crumped.
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Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
Photos of the wreck show the PT Cruiser mangled almost beyond recognition, with its front end completely crumped.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
Photos of the wreck show the PT Cruiser mangled almost beyond recognition, with its front end completely crumped.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crump
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As stablecoin usage explodes to 30 million monthly active addresses (a 53% increase year-over-year according to Dune Analytics) their real-world utility is becoming impossible to ignore.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Air raid sirens rang out and exploding interceptor rockets were heard in Jerusalem.—
Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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Philby died in 1988, by all reports a disillusioned man, but he’d already been killed off onscreen the year before in the opening moments of this Frederick Forsyth adaptation, in which a rogue branch of the KGB plots to build and detonate a bomb on British soil.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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This combination of vulnerability and vengeance was compounded by the overnight news that, according to the Israeli security services, terrorists had detonated bombs on several buses across central Israel.—
Patrick Kingsley,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Ed Sheeran popped up at a Boston Irish pub to perform a surprise acoustic set in front of a celebratory St. Patrick’s Day crowd on Monday night.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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With Virginia waving at the golf pro from the sidelines, and Shooter popping up a little later.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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By dumping more toxic substances into the landfills, there’s a higher chance of chemicals leaking into groundwater or becoming part of airborne dust blowing into nearby communities.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Mar. 2025
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Banks burst through those doors with a breakneck style.—
Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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The tech bubble burst in 2000, sending the S&P 500 down by almost 50%.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Crump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crump. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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