Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To wrinkle or form into folds or creases.
- v. To become wrinkled or creased.
- n. An irregular or untidy crease.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To wrinkle; make uneven; form into irregular inequalities.
- n. A wrinkle; a fold; a ridge.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple.
- n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle.
WordNet 3.0
- v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
- v. disturb the smoothness of
- v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
Etymologies
- Perhaps Dutch rompelen, from Middle Dutch rumpelen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I've got nary a line on my face and I'm now free to secretly eye the fissures that have started to rumple my friends 'faces.”
The Huffington Post: Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky
“Feel us rumple through all that it's got: bed spreads, shower curtain, taste like apple bear claws from the continental breakfast: Philly cream cheese in foot-long foil squeeze.”
“She smiled to herself at vagrant impulses which arose from nowhere and suggested that she rumple his hair; while he desired greatly, when they tired of reading, to rest his head in her lap and dream with closed eyes about the future that was to be theirs.”
“I've got nary a line on my face and I'm now free to secretly eye the fissures that have started to rumple my friends' faces.”
The Huffington Post: Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky
“May 9, 2010 at 3:48 am ai alwais tells zeekie “nao yoo no hao rumple felt”, cos when he wuz yunger, he terrorized mai angel kitteh rumpelteazer something awful! ai no call em bullees, just boystrus!”
why you want candy? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Dresses made in chiffon or silk lie nicer than satin, which tends to rumple in all the wrong places.”
“One questionable choice Crowley and Goldman make is the inclusion of a pair of political reporter stand-ins: Middle-aged, rumple-suited Harlan Jessop, and young, funny hairstyle-having Jason Newbury.”
“Salon's Stephanie Zacharek admires the lead performance from Alberto Sordi, "an elegant comic actor in the vein of America's William Powell; the world may confound him, but it can never rumple him.”
“The outermost 10 km of the glacier is mostly a floating mass of ice except at an ice rumple on the southern edge over a sub-glacial sill.”
“At the junction that is created at this point an ice rumple above the center of a sub-glacial sill restricts the main stream to a width of only 4 km.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rumple’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockssteatopygia, callipygous, callipygian, tuchis, tot, stern, seat, rear, rump, keisterrump, fundament, fanny and 160 more...
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VNCle
N stands for 'nasal', not 'n'
pimple, bungle, spindle, handle, amble, humble, simple, dimple, winkle, tinkle, single, dingle and 53 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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kiwibird's Words
umbra, sylph, rumple, wiggle, wimble, wobble, mittens, dearth, shenanigans, hooligans, bedraggled, lackadaisical
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