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/ˈkɹæmbəl/ · noun
(usually in the plural) A branch that has been broken and blown onto the ground by the wind..
After the wind-tempest, when branches lie in crambles upon the clearings and neighbors at far distances phone down the foothills under the mountains to ask if all is well still, the answer is “Yes”
These were not your ordinary crambles Boughs and branches broken by the wind.
I shoved into the bottom of the brush pile two large grocery bags holding chainsaw chaff well-soaked in old gasoline gone sticky— a kind of homemade napalm, except, of course, without victims, other than boughs, stumps, broken boards, vines, crambles.
Remove this, and the foundation is gone, the superstructure will soon totter, and in less time than was consumed in erecting, will the building cramble to atoms.
Usually she crambles the sand particles with her mandibles and fore legs and sweeps it out backwards through the underside of her abdomen.
A sense of direction, a sense of leadership to give shape to an inertia which crambles in the face of a crises.
The yellow Fumitorie hath many crambling threddie rootes, ſomewhat thicke, groſſe, and fat, like thoſe of Aſparagus: from which riſe diuers vpright ſtalkes a cubite high, diuiding themſelues towarde the top into other ſmaller branches, whereon are confuſedly placed leaues like thoſe of Thalictrum or Engliſh Rubarbe, but leſſer and thinner: […]
Juliet, crambling up her hair, darted into the house to prepare the tea, and also to “tidy herself.”
Use cramble when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cramble means (usually in the plural) A branch that has been broken and blown onto the ground by the wind..
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After the wind-tempest, when branches lie in crambles upon the clearings and neighbors at far distances phone down the foothills under the mountains to ask if all is well still, the answer is “Yes”
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