crumb

1. 1.

   coat with bread crumbs

   “crumb a cutlet”

   Broadercoat

   cooking

2. 2.

   break into crumbs

   Broaderbreak up
3. 3.

   remove crumbs from

   “crumb the table”

   Broaderremove

Other forms of crumb

plural

crumbs·

past tense

crumbed·

present participle

crumbing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crumb

What does crumb mean?

crumb means "a very small quantity of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crumb?

crumb has 1 syllable: crumb. In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌm/.

What is another word for crumb?

Close synonyms include rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crumb a common word?

crumb is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crumb?

1 word rhymes with crumb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.