Definitions

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  • verb transitive To return something which has been crumpled, closer to its original state.
  • verb intransitive Having been crumpled, to return closer to one's original state.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ crumple

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Examples

  • He personally conducted the tour of the F&D facilities, leading them through the various labs and showing them a number of “wow” demonstrations that had been set up: a polymer that could be deformed – bent, crumpled, folded – and yet would “remember” its original shape and slowly unfold, uncrumple, unbend itself to become almost flat again in a matter of minutes.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • He personally conducted the tour of the F&D facilities, leading them through the various labs and showing them a number of “wow” demonstrations that had been set up: a polymer that could be deformed – bent, crumpled, folded – and yet would “remember” its original shape and slowly unfold, uncrumple, unbend itself to become almost flat again in a matter of minutes.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • He personally conducted the tour of the F&D facilities, leading them through the various labs and showing them a number of “wow” demonstrations that had been set up: a polymer that could be deformed – bent, crumpled, folded – and yet would “remember” its original shape and slowly unfold, uncrumple, unbend itself to become almost flat again in a matter of minutes.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • He personally conducted the tour of the F&D facilities, leading them through the various labs and showing them a number of “wow” demonstrations that had been set up: a polymer that could be deformed – bent, crumpled, folded – and yet would “remember” its original shape and slowly unfold, uncrumple, unbend itself to become almost flat again in a matter of minutes.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • As an alternate method, if you choose a very thin paper, such as typing paper, you can actually press the entire sheet of paper down into the salad spinner for your spin art, and then lay the paper flat to dry and uncrumple.

    Salad Spinner Spin Art Tutorial 2009

  • We uncrumple a holiday flier from the Hinson Memorial Baptist Church, which contains a handwritten note: Mark.

    Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002

  • It was early spring, the first rathe-primroses were showing their milk-fair faces on the cliff, and the light-green leaves were beginning to uncrumple on the wind-wilted elders, when John-James appeared on a mission of his own at the Vicarage.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • Yes, yes, those snowballs on the floor were quite good enough, let him pick them up and uncrumple them and pin them back in their places ready for the typewriter.

    In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

  • Chet, you see, had plumb crumpled the first time he ever set eyes on her, and he's never been able to uncrumple.

    Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • There are stories about how in the early days of his design business he would go through the waste paper baskets after everybody had gone home, and if he found a piece of paper that hadn't been drawn on on both sides he would uncrumple it and leave it on the desk to be used the next day.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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