rum|ple

rum|ple
rum|ple «RUHM puhl», verb, -pled, -pling, noun.
–v.t.
1. to crumple; crush; wrinkle: »

a rumpled sheet of paper. Don't pla in your best dress; you'll rumple it.

SYNONYM(S): pucker, crease.
2. to tousle; disorder: »

to rumple up hair.

–v.i.
to become wrinkled, crumpled, or disordered. SYNONYM(S): pucker, crease.
[apparently < noun]
–n.
a wrinkle; crease.
[< earlier Dutch rompel]

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