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sbriciolare

to crumble

verb zbree-choh-LAH-reh Rare
Food & Drink Cooking

Also means

to crush into crumbs

Usage Note

Sbriciolare means to break something into tiny crumbs or fragments — sbriciolare il pane ('to crumble the bread'). The reflexive form sbriciolarsi means 'to crumble apart' (il muro si è sbriciolato — 'the wall crumbled'). It is a regular first-conjugation verb. Figuratively it can describe the collapse of an argument or a plan.

Examples

"Sbriciolò il biscotto nel latte."

Natural Translation

She crumbled the biscuit into the milk.

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