Rumpling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is rumpled.

    "Of course, these rumplings are not left obvious to our eyes. Whilst the earth is wrapping its old coat about it, the busy hands of the sun are smoothing down the creases—by heat and frost, rain and wind, waves and rivers[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of rumple form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"I'm alone standing at the tip of the slow-dying year, the universe breaking in waves at my feet, planets whirling about my head, rumpling my hair in the wind that rushes by, without giving an answer that would fill the abyss."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.