Rumple

//ˈɹʌmpəl//

Synonyms for "rumple" (88 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (18)

pucker ruffle agitate beat beat up bristle churn churn up clutter cocker cockle convulse corrugate corrugation crankle crease

Verb(2 words)

cockle crease

Strong matches (26)

crimp crimple crinkle crumple crush derange disarrange disarray discompose dishevel dislocate disorder disorganize disquiet disturb excite ferment flurry fold fret

Show 3 more words

furrow knit knot

Verb(3 words)

crinkle crumple knit

Related words (44)

litter mess mess up misarrange muss muss up paddle perturb perturbate purse ridge rile rimple ripple rivel roil roughen rub the wrong way ruck ruckle

Show 19 more words

scatter screw scrunch set on edge shake shake up shirr stir stir up swirl tousle trouble upset whip whip up whisk wimple work up wrinkle

Verb(5 words)

mess up pucker ruffle ruffle up wrinkle

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

10 entries

crease crinkle crisp disarrange fold fold up ruckle scrunch scrunch up wrinkle

Synonyms

2 entries

pucker ruffle

Related terms

1 entries

Rumplestiltskin

derived

5 entries

rumple up rumpler rumplesome rumply unrumple

manner of

1 entries

fold

related to

3 entries

muss tousle wrinkle

similar

1 entries

draw

Translations

35 translations across 16 languages.

Azerbaijani

1 entries

əzmək verb (to make wrinkled)

Bulgarian

2 entries

набръчквам verb (to make wrinkled)
намачквам verb (to make wrinkled)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

弄皺 /弄皱 verb (to make wrinkled)
弄绉 verb (to make wrinkled)
皺褶 /皱褶 verb (to make wrinkled)

Czech

4 entries

mačkat verb (to make wrinkled)
muchlat verb (to make wrinkled)
podrbat (vlasy) verb (to muss)
pomačkat verb (to make wrinkled)

Dutch

1 entries

verkreukelen verb (to make wrinkled)

Finnish

1 entries

rypistää verb (to make wrinkled)

French

1 entries

froisser verb (to make wrinkled)

German

1 entries

zerknittern verb (to make wrinkled)

Japanese

1 entries

くしゃくしゃにする verb (to make wrinkled)

Māori

1 entries

tarihahohaho verb (to make wrinkled)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

knøvle verb (to make wrinkled)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

knuvla verb (to make wrinkled)

Polish

4 entries

gnieść verb (to make wrinkled)
marszczyć verb (to make wrinkled)
miąć verb (to make wrinkled)
pognieść verb (to make wrinkled)

Russian

4 entries

ко́мкать verb (to make wrinkled)
мять verb (to make wrinkled)
ско́мкать verb (to make wrinkled)
смять verb (to make wrinkled)

Slovak

2 entries

krčiť verb (to make wrinkled)
pokrčiť verb (to make wrinkled)

Spanish

1 entries

arrugar verb (to make wrinkled)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.

Source: wiktionary

They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.

Source: wiktionary

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