Crumble vs. Shatter — What's the Difference?

A crumble is a dish that can be made in a sweet or savoury version, although the sweet version is much more common. A sweet variety usually contains stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat (usually butter), flour, and sugar.

To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.

To break into small fragments or pieces

To damage seriously; disable

To fall into small fragments or pieces; disintegrate

To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy

To give way; collapse

To break into pieces; smash or burst

A baked dessert of fruit topped with a crumbly pastry mixture

Often shatters A fragment or splinter

The crumbly mixture on top of such a dessert.

A scattering collection or spray of fragments

To fall apart; to disintegrate.

(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.

(transitive) To break into crumbs.

(transitive) To destroy or disable something.

(transitive) To mix (ingredients such as flour and butter) in such a way as to form crumbs.

(intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.

A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

(transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening.

To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

(obsolete) To scatter about.

Fall apart;

A fragment of anything shattered.

Break or fall apart into fragments;

A (pine) needle.

Fall into decay or ruin;

A form of concentrated cannabis.

To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.

To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.

To scatter about.

To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.

A fragment of anything shattered; - used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Break into many pieces;

Break into many pieces;