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Crumbling vs Crumbly - What's the difference?

crumbling | crumbly |

As a verb crumbling

is .

As a noun crumbling

is material that has crumbled away; crumbs.

As an adjective crumbly is

easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.

crumbling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
  • * Henry James, The Aspern Papers
    • Blank I call it, but it was figured over with the patches that please a painter, repaired breaches, crumblings of plaster, extrusions of brick that had turned pink with time

    crumbly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable