crumple

Object

• paper: Don't lean on a document or volume - this will crumple the paper or break the spine of a book.
• face: I noticed also from the composed but slightly crumpled faces in the group, that something very special was happening.
• letter: The letter crumpled in her hands, her vision blurred then tunneled to a narrow point of white light.
• noise: Improbable and the National Theater of Scotland present A Musical Pandemonium There are sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls.
• body: Blood poured out on the floor and his body crumpled into a pile.

Preposition: on

floor: How does it feel to be crumpled on the floor?

Preposition: into

• ball: The paper is crumpled into a small ball and placed in their pocket.
• heap: Melvin vomited, and crumpled into a heap on the floor, bleeding from the nose.

Modifies a noun

• zone: Crumple zones, airbags, seat belts, rigid frames, for example, are all designed to protect people within a vehicle.
• virus: Effect of cotton leaf crumple virus on cotton inoculated at different growth stages.
• test: If your tortillas have passed the crumple test you needn't worry about this.

Modifying Another Word

• all: Them folks who had given the matter a little thought handed the ballots back all crumpled up.
• then: But the Swans then crumpled twice inside a minute around the hour mark to gift Oxford the three points.
• slightly: This slightly crumpled old picture was probably taken around 1893.
• just: It accounts for why so many houses just crumpled like packs of cards and why older or more solid buildings remained intact.
• n't: To avoid blisters you want socks that wo n't crumple down into your shoes.
• completely: With a little luck they wouldn't rupture and would be completely crumpled up.

Noun used with modifier

leaf: Effect of cotton leaf crumple virus on cotton inoculated at different growth stages.

Particle object:

paper: Is someone now crumpling up wax paper or splitting a seam on his pants?

Preposition: in

heap: I then backed through the door and crumpled in a heap.