Meaning

The sound of a muffled explosion..

Definitions by Sense

1. The sound of a muffled explosion.
2. (intransitive) To produce such a sound.
3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
4. (obsolete) Crooked; bent.
5. (intransitive, US, medical slang) To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).

Example Sentences

And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last crump’ was the end of the war and would we ever hear it burst safely behind us?

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.

“Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.”

a crump loaf

Crooked backs and crump shoulders.

I can only be in one place at a time, so sometimes I just have to say, “Listen, I’ve got this other patient that’s crumping down the hall.[”]

Word Forms

• crumps
• crumping
• crumped
• more crump
• most crump

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Use crump when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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