rumple

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  1. transitive verb To wrinkle or form into folds or creases.
  2. intransitive verb To become wrinkled or creased.
  3. noun An irregular or untidy crease.

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  • HC, 1st ed., fore-edge has been banged by something, leaving a light rumple in the first 49 pages, else VG, dj, —  Cryptomundo
  • I rumple my husband's gray hair and tease him that he hasn't really gained that much weight. —  A Filipina Mom Blogger
  • John Mulder offers a large-scale, suburb-spoofing take on the old "Mad Fold-In" images, presenting two works side-by-side - one "folded," the other not - so you don't have to rumple the whole painting. —  Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed
  • O, what hair She was before the glass now; she caught up stray locks and thrust in hairpins here and there; then she tied a little violet-edged black ribbon through the toss and rumple, and somehow it looked all right. —  The Other Girls
  • In her place was a rumple-haired, bright-eyed child. —  Up the Hill and Over
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disheveled ·  baggy ·  tattered ·  woolen ·  loose-fitting ·  threadbare ·  grubby ·  shapeless ·  bedraggled ·  bloodstained ·  sodden ·  fluffy

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rumple:   rumpled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps Dutch rompelen, from Middle Dutch rumpelen.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. A variant of rimple, q. v.
  2. A variant of rimple, q. v. Cf. rumple, v.
 

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/ˈrəmpl/
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