cramble
/ˈkɹæmbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To break apart.
verb
To twist and wind irregularly.
verb
To move unsteadily or with difficulty; to hobble.
Example Sentences
- "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."