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Crumbling vs Fragment - What's the difference?

crumbling | fragment |

As nouns the difference between crumbling and fragment

is that crumbling is material that has crumbled away; crumbs while fragment is fragment.

As a verb crumbling

is .

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

    fragment

    English

    (wikipedia fragment)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
  • (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
  • (computing)

    • Related terms

    * fragmental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break apart.
  • To cause to be broken into pieces.

    • Synonyms

    * fragmentize

    Derived terms

    * fragmentation

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