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Scamble vs Crumble - What's the difference?

scamble | crumble |

As verbs the difference between scamble and crumble

is that scamble is to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble while crumble is to fall apart; to disintegrate.

As a noun crumble is

a dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

scamble

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(scambl)
  • To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
  • "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them "
  • To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
  • *1596 , Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
  • *:How easy dost thou take all England up!
  • *:From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
  • *:The life, the right and truth of all this realm
  • *:Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
  • *:To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
  • *:The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
  • To mangle.
  • (Mortimer)

    crumble

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To fall apart; to disintegrate.
  • To render into crumbs.
  • Noun

  • A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.