ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Reduced to minute crumbs or fragments; pulverized, disintegrated.

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c. 1420.  [see CRUMBLE v. 1].

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1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 468. The crumbled earth.

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1853.  Kane, Grinnell Exp., xx. (1856), 156. Four circular mounds … of the crumbled lime-stones.

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