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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To wrinkle or form into folds or creases.
  2. v. To become wrinkled or creased.
  3. n. An irregular or untidy crease.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To wrinkle; make uneven; form into irregular inequalities.
  2. n. A wrinkle; a fold; a ridge.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
  2. v. To muss.
  3. v. To tousle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple.
  2. n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  2. v. disturb the smoothness of
  3. v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps Dutch rompelen, from Middle Dutch rumpelen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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