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rumple
[ ruhm-puhl ]
verb (used with object)
- to crumple or crush into wrinkles:
to rumple a sheet of paper.
Synonyms: , ,
- to ruffle; tousle (sometimes followed by up ):
The wind rumpled her hair.
verb (used without object)
- to become wrinkled or crumpled:
Tissue rumples easily.
noun
- a wrinkle or irregular fold; crease.
rumple
/ ˈʌə /
verb
- to make or become wrinkled, crumpled, ruffled, or dishevelled
noun
- a wrinkle, fold, or crease
Derived Forms
- ˈܳ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·ܳp adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of rumple1
Word History and Origins
Origin of rumple1
Example Sentences
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.
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.”
A few hundred stragglers moved their home to the nearby MacDonald Ice rumples and kept the group going.
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.
he’d thought were stones was actually a rumpled gray shirt, its buttons larger than Jack’s head.
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