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Definition of Crumped
1. crump [v] - See also: crump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumped
Literary usage of Crumped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tanks, 1914-1918: The Log-book of a Pioneer by Albert Gerald Stern (1919)
"Tanks must not be used over heavily crumped areas. 2. Tanks should be used in
large quantities. 8. Tanks should support Tanks. ..."
2. Canadian Geological Classification for the Province of Quebec by Jules Marcou (1889)
"The structure of " this fossiliferous belt" is " a broad, crumped and folded
synclinal," with " the characteristic Pointe Levis limestone conglomerates and ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"... and the ties which bound him to England and English life were too many and
too strong to be lightly rent asunder ; but the sense of being crumped and ..."
4. The Monthly Review (1843)
"... as for The last Eruption but Six, it has crumped near the Elephant and Castle
any time these two years, until the cockneys would wonder at it no longer. ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"... the Seven Lancashire Bell- ringers from Islington, or the City Road, no doubt;
and as for " The last Eruption but Six," it has crumped ..."
6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1896)
"... Old Tom crumped his lips, silenced if not beaten. Beaten, one might almost
say, for nothing more was heard of him that night. ..."
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