You're not a serious mathematician unless you crumple up a piece of paper in frustration every twenty minutes, look off into space, and appear to be questioning your very existence.
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Crumple
//ˈkɹʌmpəl//
Synonyms for "crumple" (74 found)
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5 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
6 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 24 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- əzmək verb (to rumple)
Belarusian
1 entries- мяць verb (to rumple)
Bulgarian
4 entries- мачкам verb (to rumple)
- мачкам се verb (to become wrinkled)
- набръчквам verb (to rumple)
- набръчквам се verb (to become wrinkled)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 弄皺 /弄皱 verb (to rumple)
Czech
4 entries- hroutit se verb (to collapse)
- krčit verb (to rumple)
- mačkat verb (to rumple)
- mačkat se verb (to become wrinkled)
Finnish
4 entries- lyyhistyä verb (to collapse)
- rutistaa verb (to rumple)
- rypistyä verb (to become wrinkled)
- rypistää verb (to rumple)
French
4 entries- chiffonner verb (to rumple)
- froisser verb (to rumple)
- s'effondrer verb (to collapse)
- se froisser verb (to become wrinkled)
German
4 entries- knüllen verb (to rumple)
- verkrumpeln verb (to rumple)
- zerknittern verb (to rumple)
- zerknittern verb (to become wrinkled)
Greek
4 entries- ζαρώνω verb (to rumple)
- ζαρώνω verb (to become wrinkled)
- καταρρέω verb (to collapse)
- σωριάζομαι verb (to collapse)
Indonesian
1 entries- lecek verb (to rumple)
Irish
1 entries- crap verb (to cause to collapse)
Japanese
1 entries- しわくちゃにする verb (to rumple)
Lingala
1 entries- nyuka verb (to rumple)
Malay
4 entries- berkedut verb (to become wrinkled)
- kerumuk verb (to rumple)
- remuk verb (to rumple)
- renyuk verb (to rumple)
Māori
4 entries- kopenu verb (to cause to collapse)
- kōpenupenu verb (to cause to collapse)
- ngaeki verb (to collapse)
- tarihahohaho verb (to rumple)
Polish
1 entries- miąć verb (to rumple)
Portuguese
2 entries- amassar verb (to rumple)
- amassar verb (to become wrinkled)
Romanian
1 entries- cocoloși verb (to rumple)
Russian
4 entries- ко́мкать verb (to rumple)
- мо́рщиться verb (to become wrinkled)
- мять verb (to rumple)
- мяться verb (to become wrinkled)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zgužvati verb (to rumple)
- згужвати verb (to rumple)
Slovak
1 entries- mäť verb (to rumple)
Spanish
4 entries- ahajar (disused) verb (to rumple)
- ajar verb (to rumple)
- ajarse verb (to become wrinkled)
- arrugar verb (to rumple)
Swedish
1 entries- skrynkla ihop verb (to rumple)
Ukrainian
2 entries- жма́кати verb (to rumple)
- м'я́ти verb (to rumple)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Do not fold or crumple this sheet.
Source: tatoeba (7983846)
He crumpled the note and threw it away.
Source: wiktionary
He crumpled the car's body panels when he backed into a post.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.