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rumple

[ ruhm-puhl ]

verb (used with object)

rumpled, rumpling.
  1. to crumple or crush into wrinkles:

    to rumple a sheet of paper.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. to ruffle; tousle (sometimes followed by up ):

    The wind rumpled her hair.



verb (used without object)

rumpled, rumpling.
  1. to become wrinkled or crumpled:

    Tissue rumples easily.

noun

  1. a wrinkle or irregular fold; crease.

rumple

/ ˈʌə /

verb

  1. to make or become wrinkled, crumpled, ruffled, or dishevelled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a wrinkle, fold, or crease
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳ, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ·ܳp adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rumple1

1595–1605; < Dutch rompelen (v.), rompel (noun)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rumple1

C17: from Middle Dutch rompelen ; related to Old English gerumpen creased, wrinkled
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Skarsgård makes Luthen more rumpled and prone to rage about the grave he’s dug for himself even as he preaches that fighting fascism requires radical sacrifice.

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If that wasn’t clear from the rumpled blue button-down he wears in almost every scene, it’s in his delight when Romy books a posh suite and he gasps, “There’s a whole living room in here.”

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A few hundred stragglers moved their home to the nearby MacDonald Ice rumples and kept the group going.

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An aggressively flatulent vision of undarned socks, rumpled shirts and unspeakably greasy trench coat, Lamb is invariably surrounded by whiskey bottles and the moldering remnants of Chinese takeout.

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he’d thought were stones was actually a rumpled gray shirt, its buttons larger than Jack’s head.

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