crump

Other forms of crump

past tense

crumped·

present participle

crumping·

third person

crumps·

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 crump

What does crump mean?

crump means "make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crump?

crump has 1 syllable: crump. In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌmp/.

What is another word for crump?

Close synonyms include thud, scrunch. 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 crump a common word?

crump is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.