Antonyms for crumble
ˈkrʌm bəlcrum·ble

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1. crumble

   Antonyms:
   consolidate, conglutinate, bond, amalgamate

   Synonyms:
   disintegrate, pulverize, triturate

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1. • Change
   • Change Integrity
   • Disintegrate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapseverb

   fall apart

   "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

   Synonyms:
   topple, crease, collapse, analyze, buckle, crack, crack up, rumple, cave in, fail, snap, twig, whirl, go bad, tumble, break up, decay, cotton on, give, crock up, knit, get wise, conk out, analyse, whirl around, fall apart, give out, cockle, catch on, go, fall in, get onto, wrinkle, break, crumple, pucker, die, decompose, get it, latch on, dissect, break down, give way, crush, take apart, dilapidate, burst, lose it, crinkle, founder, tip

2. crumble, fall apartverb

   break or fall apart into fragments

   "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"

   Synonyms:
   break down, decay, separate, crumple, bust, tumble, wear, dilapidate, collapse, split up, go to pieces, break, come apart, fall apart, wear out

3. decay, crumble, dilapidateverb

   fall into decay or ruin

   "The unoccupied house started to decay"

   Synonyms:
   break down, dilapidate, decompose, crumple, disintegrate, tumble, collapse, decay, fall apart

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. crumbleverb

   Synonyms:
   disintegrate, decay, molder

How to use crumble in a sentence?

1. Leonid Vasilenko:

   The walls were shaking, the window frames were shaking, paint started to crumble off the house, i hid in the basement. What else can you do? I took the dog and the cat. In the basement you could hear the earth tremble.

2. Robert English:

   Eventually, the loss of troops, the loss of foreign investment, the loss of public support, the economic drain — all those are facts that he can't ignore indefinitely, but I think he's resisting that because he's living … in a world of slanted intelligence and illusions and utopian ideas about a return of the Russian Empire that will take some time to crumble away. And he's resisting it mightily, still trying to come up with that military victory, even as everyone else can see it grinding to a halt.

3. Mattia Toaldo:

   The victorious end of Misrata's offensive on Sirte could be the harbinger of more infighting between different factions, ultimately, the current relative absence of violence in Libya is very fragile in many areas and could crumble under these multiple pressures.

4. Demelza Bischoff:

   It felt like the whole house was going to crumble, it started getting really bad, the tin roof started lifting and the ceiling blew out.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   my reggae music was created to chant down babylon. I/we said-they see their dreams and aspirations crumble in front of their face, and all of their wicked intentions to destroy the human race- my reasonings with bob marley and the trench town people put into song.

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