crumbling

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of crumble

noun

  1. Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
    Blank I call it, but it was figured over with the patches that please a painter, repaired breaches, crumblings of plaster, extrusions of brick that had turned pink with time[…] 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers

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