crumble

Object

• edifice: There are approximately 3 shops still open in this crumbling edifice.
• ruin: From dramatic sheer cliffs to crumbling Roman ruins, Naples too, offers up a heady mix of sights.
• cube: Sprinkle in the flour and cook, stirring, for 1-2 minutes then add the tahini paste and crumbled stock cube and mix well.
• cheese: Serve the soup with a little crumbled blue cheese stir in.
• mansion: One evening after dark a young man prowled among these crumbling red mansions, ringing their bells.
• cliff: His right hand held on to a crumbling stone cliff, his left stuck out in mid-air.

Preposition: into

• dust: Defending such high taxation levels, lest the NHS crumbles into dust, has tested people's patience to the limit.
• ruin: Ten years later this gave way, and was never repaired, and eventually the Abbey crumbled into the evocative ruins we see today.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling.
• away: Over the past five months they have watched their livelihoods crumble away with the death of every cow, every sheep.
• eventually: However a series of events were to undermine this support until it eventually crumbled.
• rapidly: The tarmac rapidly crumbled into a dirt road shadowing the line of the old Central Pacific Railroad.
• soon: Those that had survived the burning torches of the clearances soon crumbled.
• easily: If the lawn's edges crumble easily, insert an edging of wood or plastic set below grass level.

Followed by an intransitive particle

away: The braille will now crumble away leaving a hole.

Used with why or when

when: The cookie was sometimes so old it would crumble away when tapped on the table.

Preposition: in

cube: Heat the Madeira crumble in the stock cube and stir well.

Preposition: under

• pressure: Can you keep your cool and win, or will you crumble under the pressure?
• weight: Were they to progress tho, they would probably crumble under the weight of disciplinary bans.

Preposition: with

custard: My mother's blackcurrant and apple crumble with custard and her steak and kidney pie.