Crump vs Crumple - What's the difference?
crump | crumple |
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
(obsolete) crooked; bent
* Jeremy Taylor
The sound of a muffled explosion.
* 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
* 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
* 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
* 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News.
To produce such a sound.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=William Grimes, title=In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy, work=New York Times
, passage=“Mortars crumped , and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.” }}
To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
To cause to collapse.
To become wrinkled.
To collapse.
In intransitive terms the difference between crump and crumple
is that crump is to produce such a sound while crumple is to collapse.As an adjective crump
is hard or crusty; dry baked.As a proper noun Crump
is {{surname|from=Middle English}.crump
English
Etymology 1
Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.Adjective
(en adjective)- a crump loaf
- Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
- Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
- Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
Taking cover on Sderot front line
- "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .
Verb
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