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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb rumple has 3 senses
- rumple(v = verb.contact) mess up, ruffle, ruffle up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water" is one way to disarrange
- rumple(v = verb.contact) cockle, crumple, knit, pucker - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" is one way to crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle
- rumple(v = verb.change) crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" is one way to fold, fold up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentence:
They rumple the sheets
Sample sentences:
The sheets didn't rumple
These fabrics rumple easily
CIDE DICTIONARY
rumple, v. t. & i. [Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, G. rÜmpfen to wrinkle, MHG. rÜmphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, to roam.].
To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. [1913 Webster]
"They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats."
[1913 Webster]
rumple, n.
A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rumple, v.tr. & intr. make or become creased or ruffled.
Derivative
rumply adj.
Etymology
obs. rumple (n.) f. MDu. rompel f. rompe wrinkle
THESAURUS
rumple
agitate, beat, beat up, bristle, churn, churn up, clutter, cocker, cockle, convulse, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, crush, derange, disarrange, disarray, discompose, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disquiet, disturb, excite, ferment, flurry, fold, fret, furrow, knit, knot, litter, mess, mess up, misarrange, muss, muss up, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pucker, purse, ridge, rile, rimple, ripple, rivel, roil, roughen, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, scatter, screw, scrunch, set on edge, shake, shake up, shirr, stir, stir up, swirl, tousle, trouble, upset, whip, whip up, whisk, wimple, work up, wrinkleROGET THESAURUS
rumple
Disorder
VB be disorderly, ferment, play at cross-purposes, put out of order, derange, ravel, ruffle, rumple.Derangement
VB derange, disarrange, misarrange, displace, misplace, mislay, discompose, disorder, deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize, embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble, shuffle, randomize, huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot, bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder, muss, break the ranks, disconcert, convulse, break in upon, unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear, turn topsy-turvy, bedevil, complicate, involve, perplex, confound, imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle, rumple, litter, scatter, mix, rearrange.Roughness
VB be rough, go against the grain, render-rough, roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.Fold
N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.VB fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.
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