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rum·ple (rumpəl)

noun

an uneven fold or crease

Etymology: MDu rompel < rompe, a wrinkle, akin to OE hrympel, a wrinkle < IE *(s)kremb-, to twist: see shrimp

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·pled, -·pling

  1. to make rumples (in)
  2. to make or become disheveled or tousled

rumple Related Forms

rum·ply adverb

rumple Synonyms

rumple

v.

rumple Usage Examples

Object

  • jacket: And who don't always come sporting rumpled jackets.
  • shirt: Kristof stepped from behind the sofa, picking what looked like cobwebs from his rumpled shirt.
  • sheet: There's a hair's breadth moment, that hangs, light and airborne, slowing in the dust beneath a white rumpled sheet.
  • detective: But like the crumpled, rumpled detective himself, it's one which is deceptively brilliant in its simplicity.
  • carpet: The massively rumpled carpet in the Live room added an extra element of danger to throwing shapes which were in turn becoming increasingly bizarre.
  • layer: The cerebral cortex is the rumpled gray outer layer of the brain.

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