crumping

Verb (1)

crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)

1. (intransitive) To produce such a sound.
   • “Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.”2007 September 28, William Grimes, “In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy”, in New York Times

Verb (2)

crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)

1. (US, intransitive, medical slang) To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).
   • I can only be in one place at a time, so sometimes I just have to say, “Listen, I’ve got this other patient that’s crumping down the hall.[”]1998, Marsha E. Fonteyn, Thinking Strategies for Nursing Practice, Lippincott, page 167

   Synonyms:

   circle the drain

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