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crump

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5 lettersPronunciation /kɹʌmp/Part of speech verbSorted cmpruStarts with CEnds with P0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. explode heavily or with a loud dull noise

Word origin

From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • "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.

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