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Crumple

//ˈkɹʌmpəl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
Verb
  1. 1
    To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together. transitive

    "He crumpled the note and threw it away."

  2. 2
    become wrinkled or crumpled or creased wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to collapse. transitive

    "He crumpled the car's body panels when he backed into a post."

  4. 4
    to gather something into small wrinkles or folds wordnet
  5. 5
    To become wrinkled. intransitive

    "The car's body panels crumpled when they hit the post."

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  1. 6
    fold or collapse wordnet
  2. 7
    To collapse; to surrender. figuratively, intransitive

    "The team's defensive strategy crumpled."

  3. 8
    fall apart wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.

Etymology 2

From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.

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