crumple

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The man crumpled as dead men crumple--in an ugly, twisted heap.

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  1. transitive verb To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple.
  2. transitive verb To cause to collapse.
  3. intransitive verb To become wrinkled.
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  • His eyes narrowed behind his spectacles as he thumbed through the sketches, taking care even in his haste not to crumple or smear them. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • He saw it crumple, saw the fragments fall toward him. —  PRIESTESS OF THE WHITE
  • If your feelings are hurt so easily and you crumple into a puddle of tears every time someone says something that scratches the surface of skin thinner than a layer of onion, then for heaven's sake, don't enter the field of politics because this is a contact sport and people get hurt and sometimes leave the field on a stretcher in defeat Instead of on the shoulders of his teammates in victory. —  FOXNews.com
  • You can't accelerate out of harm's way like you can on a motorized bike, and your bike is usually as light as a feather - meaning instant crumple when you crash. —  Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
  • I love how completely ungracious the OFF / fall-down is, as if we crumple into a pile of bones when our friends aren't around. —  Waxy.org Links
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tattered ·  rumple ·  char ·  shapeless ·  limp ·  sodden ·  silken ·  shiny ·  dirty ·  greasy ·  thin ·  striped

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crumple:   crumpled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English crumplen, probably frequentative of crumpen, to curl up; see crumpet.

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  1. from Middle English crumplen, cromplen, make crooked; freq. from crump, but mixed in sense with the related crimple and crimp: see crump, crimp, crimple.
  2. from crumple, v.
 

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