Words that rhyme with crumb

  • alum
    n 1: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: alum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum] 2: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: alum, potassium alum, potash alum] 3: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad] 4: a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
  • become
    v 1: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get] 2: undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" [syn: become, turn] 3: come into existence; "What becomes has duration" 4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
  • benumb
    v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
  • buckram
    adj 1: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff, buckram] n 1: a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing v 1: stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt"
  • bum
    adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny] n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git] 2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum] 3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge] 2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]
  • chum
    n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick] 2: bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish 3: a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish [syn: chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta]
  • come
    n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come] v 1: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn: come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away] 2: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go away, go forth, leave] 3: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" 4: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his face went red"; "your wish will come true" 5: to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow] 6: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled" 7: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard" [syn: issue forth, come] 8: be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail, come] 9: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles" 10: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came the student from France" 11: cover a certain distance; "She came a long way" 12: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall, come] 13: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this" 14: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number, add up, come, amount] 15: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: come, add up, amount] 16: be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn: come, come in] 17: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" [syn: occur, come] 18: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive, come, descend] 19: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along] 20: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too upset" 21: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"
  • cum
    n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
  • drum
    n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end [syn: drum, membranophone, tympan] 2: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" 3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel, drum] 4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids [syn: drum, metal drum] 5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes [syn: brake drum, drum] 6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise [syn: drum, drumfish] v 1: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum] 2: play a percussion instrument 3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]
  • dumb
    adj 1: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 2: temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock" [syn: speechless, dumb] 3: lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals" 4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent]
  • dumdum
    n 1: a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound [syn: dumdum, dumdum bullet]
  • eardrum
    n 1: the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound [syn: eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane, myringa]
  • fulcrum
    n 1: the pivot about which a lever turns
  • glum
    adj 1: moody and melancholic 2: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
  • gum
    n 1: a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing [syn: chewing gum, gum] 2: the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth [syn: gingiva, gum] 3: any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying 4: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage] 5: wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum [syn: gumwood, gum] 6: any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum [syn: gum tree, gum] v 1: cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; "if you gum the tape it is stronger" 2: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food" [syn: mumble, gum] 3: become sticky 4: exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"
  • hum
    n 1: the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation" [syn: busyness, hum] 2: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors] 3: a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic" [syn: hum, humming] v 1: sing with closed lips; "She hummed a melody" 2: be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity" [syn: hum, buzz, seethe] 3: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum] 4: make a low continuous sound; "The refrigerator is humming"
  • humdrum
    adj 1: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous] 2: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous] n 1: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]
  • income
    n 1: the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time [ant: expenditure, outgo, outlay, spending]
  • mum
    adj 1: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent] n 1: of China [syn: florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, mum, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Chrysanthemum morifolium] 2: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 3: secrecy; "mum's the word"
  • numb
    adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb] 2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)] 3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move" v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
  • outcome
    n 1: something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio" [syn: result, resultant, final result, outcome, termination] 2: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot]
  • plum
    adv 1: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: plumb, plum] 2: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum] n 1: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone [syn: plum, plum tree] 2: any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit 3: a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"
  • plumb
    adv 1: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum] 2: conforming to the direction of a plumb line 3: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: plumb, plum] adj 1: exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb" n 1: the metal bob of a plumb line [syn: plumb bob, plumb, plummet] v 1: measure the depth of something 2: weight with lead 3: examine thoroughly and in great depth 4: adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
  • pogrom
    n 1: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
  • rhumb
    n 1: a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction [syn: rhumb line, rhumb, loxodrome]
  • rum
    adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] n 1: liquor distilled from fermented molasses 2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy, rum]
  • sacrum
    n 1: wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx
  • scrum
    n 1: (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession [syn: scrum, scrummage]
  • scum
    n 1: worthless people [syn: trash, scum] 2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid v 1: remove the scum from
  • simulacrum
    n 1: an insubstantial or vague semblance 2: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" [syn: effigy, image, simulacrum]
  • slum
    n 1: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions [syn: slum, slum area] v 1: spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
  • some
    adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so] adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper" [ant: all(a), no(a)] 2: relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away" 3: relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years" 4: remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"
  • strum
    n 1: sound of strumming; "the strum of a guitar" v 1: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" [syn: strum, thrum]
  • succumb
    v 1: consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under] 2: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb, yield] [ant: come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive]
  • sum
    n 1: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money] 2: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers [syn: sum, amount, total] 3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation, sum total] 4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty] 5: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 6: a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn: union, sum, join] v 1: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up] 2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up]
  • thrum
    n 1: a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo" v 1: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum] 2: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" [syn: strum, thrum] 3: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum]
  • thumb
    n 1: the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb [syn: thumb, pollex] 2: the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb 3: a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse [syn: ovolo, thumb, quarter round] v 1: travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn: hitchhike, hitch, thumb] 2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff] 3: feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book" [syn: finger, thumb]
  • turn
    n 1: a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" [syn: bend, crook, twist, turn] 2: the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right" [syn: turn, turning] 3: (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play" [syn: turn, play] 4: an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn" [syn: turn, turn of events, twist] 5: a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind" [syn: turning, turn] 6: the act of turning away or in the opposite direction; "he made an abrupt turn away from her" 7: turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room" [syn: twist, turn] 8: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go, spell, tour, turn] 9: (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive [syn: turn, bout, round] 10: a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" [syn: act, routine, number, turn, bit] 11: a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn" [syn: turn, good turn] 12: taking a short walk out and back; "we took a turn in the park" v 1: change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" 2: undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" [syn: change state, turn] 3: undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" [syn: become, turn] 4: cause to move around or rotate; "turn a key"; "turn your palm this way" 5: change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" [syn: change by reversal, turn, reverse] 6: pass to the other side of; "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle" [syn: turn, move around] 7: pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" [syn: turn, grow] 8: let (something) fall or spill from a container; "turn the flour onto a plate" [syn: turn, release] 9: move around an axis or a center; "The wheels are turning" 10: cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book" [syn: turn, turn over] 11: to send or let go; "They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion" 12: to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring" [syn: plow, plough, turn] 13: shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel; "turn the legs of the table"; "turn the clay on the wheel" 14: change color; "In Vermont, the leaves turn early" 15: twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" [syn: twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick] 16: cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics; "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold" 17: accomplish by rotating; "turn a somersault"; "turn cartwheels" 18: get by buying and selling; "the company turned a good profit after a year" 19: cause to move along an axis or into a new direction; "turn your face to the wall"; "turn the car around"; "turn your dance partner around" 20: channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium" 21: cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: flex, bend, deform, twist, turn] [ant: unbend] 22: alter the functioning or setting of; "turn the dial to 10"; "turn the heat down" 23: direct at someone; "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car" 24: have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to; "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help" [syn: call on, turn] 25: go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: sour, turn, ferment, work] 26: become officially one year older; "She is turning 50 this year"
  • bolshevism
    n 1: Soviet communism [syn: Bolshevism, collectivism, sovietism]
  • ambulacrum
    n 1: one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located
  • tum
    n 1: an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket]
  • breadcrumb
    n 1: crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening
  • lumm
  • from
  • swum
  • gmbh
  • bluhm
  • brum
  • brumm
  • clum
  • crum
  • crumm
  • drumm
  • dum
  • dumm
  • frum
  • grum
  • gumm
  • humm
  • klumb
  • krum
  • krumm
  • krumme
  • kumm
  • lum
  • lumb
  • maam
  • mumm
  • mumme
  • pflum
  • schrum
  • schum
  • schumm
  • shrum
  • shum
  • stum
  • stumm
  • thum
  • thumm
  • um
  • umm
  • yum
  • ancrum
  • baucum
  • boyum
  • exum
  • mccrum
  • mccrumb
  • narum
  • sharum
  • hmmm
  • marcrum
  • bochram
  • cockrum
  • ankrom
  • ankrum
  • involucrum

See also crumb definition and crumb synonyms