Crumple

Definition: Crumple

Crumple

Verb

1. Fall apart; also used metaphorically: "Negociations broke down".

2. Fold or collapse; "His knees buckled".

3. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips".

4. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crumple" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Crumple \Crum"ple\ (kr[u^]m"p'l), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Crumpled(-p'ld); Crumpling(-pl?ng).]. (references)

Synonyms: Crumple

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Roughness

Render-rough; Adjective: roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

Crosswords: Crumple

Economic History

Croatia

After the death of Tito and with the fall of communism throughout eastern Europe, the Yugoslav federation began to crumple. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "crumple": crumple up ♦ crumple zone. Additional references.

Beginning with "crumple": crumple-faced, crumple-free.

Albanian

zhubros (corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crush, dishevel, wrinkle), marr fund (cease, finish, go to pieces, go under), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), bëj shuk (wad). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غصن (bough, branch, crease, shoot, sprig), ‏تغلب (beat, conquer, cope, get over, get past, get the better of, knock down, master, negotiate, outdo, overbear, overcome, predomination, pull through, quench, ride, vanquish, whack, worst), ‏تغضن (cockle, corrugate, crinkle, furrow, pucker, ruffle, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏تجعد (corrugate, crease, crinkle, crispiness, curl, frizz, furrow, pucker, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏جعدة (furrow, pucker, wrinkle), ‏جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle, rumple), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

набръчквам (cockle, corrugate, furrow, pucker, purse, ruck, rumple, seam), мачкам (crease, knead, mash, maul, paw, squash, squeeze, squish, work). (various references)

Chinese 

弄皺 , 弄皱 (Creased, Creasing, Crumpled, Crumpling). (various references)

Czech

zmuchlat (Crinkle, crush, rumple), zmaèkat se (crease, crush). (various references)

Farsi 

مچاله کردن (Rumple, Scrunch, Tousle), مچاله , ازاطوانداختن . (various references)

Finnish

rypistää (crease, wrinkle), rutistaa (crush, squeeze). (various references)

French

chiffonner (crease, Crinkle), s'effondrer (crack, crash), se froisser (crease), se friper, se brancher, froisser (crease, crumble, crush), friper, faire des branches, faire écraser, branche (crease), battre. (various references)

German

zerknittern (crease, Crinkle, crumble, rumple, to crumple). (various references)

Greek 

ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, knit, pucker, ruck, rumple, shrink, shrivel, wimple, wrinkle), τσαλακώνω (muss, ruffle, rumple). (various references)

Hebrew 

למחוץ (bruise, crush, mangle, maul, overwhelm, smite, squash, wound), לקמט (crush, furrow, ruckle, wrinkle), ל�"תקמט (crease, ruckle, wrinkle). (various references)

Hungarian

összegyûr (cockle, pucker, rumple). (various references)

Indonesian

mengisutkan, menggumalkan (rumple, wrinkle). (various references)

Italian

stropicciare (crease, get creased, rub), spiegazzare (crease, crush, get crumpled, screw up), sgualcirsi, raggrinzirsi (pucker, shrivel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

皺が寄る (to crumple, to wrinkle), 揉む (to be troubled about, to coach, to crumple, to massage, to rub, to train, to worry over, to wrinkle), くすくす笑う (and yet, boldly, clearly, distinctly, exhausted, in spite of, sobbing noise, though, to be dull, to be exhausted, to be quiet, to crumple up, to darken, to die, to giggle, when, withered). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しわがよる (to crumple, to wrinkle), くちゃくちゃにする (to crumple up), もむ (to be troubled about, to coach, to crumple, to massage, to rub, to train, to worry over, to wrinkle). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering). (various references)

Norwegian

krølle (curl). (various references)

Pig Latin

umplecray.(various references)

Portuguese

ruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, fold, furrow, plica, pucker, ripple, wrinkle), prega (cockle, double, flute, gather, kink, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crush, fret, furrow, pucker, ripple, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle), dobra (crease, crinkle, double, fold, gather, kink, lap, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle), amarrotar (cockle, crease, crumble, ruffle, rumple, tousle). (various references)

Romanian

cocoloşi (ball, cuddle, hush up, shrink, shrivel), zbârci (corrugate, shrivel up, wrinkle), se mototoli (Crinkle, ruck), se încreţi (corrugate, crease, crisp, dimple, ripple, ruck, wrinkle), mototoli (Crinkle, crush, Rive, ruffle, rumple, tumble), şifona (cockle, crease, crush). (various references)

Russian 

съеживаться (cower, cringe), смять (crush), мяться (crease), мять (crease, crush, mill, rumple). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izgužvati (bedraggle, rumple, wrinkle), gužvati. (various references)

Spanish

rabosear (mess up), estrujar (bruise, crowd, crush, drain, mash, press, squeeze), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), deshecho (broken, dismantling, dumps, in pieces, leak, lost, undone, unpaged), deshacer a (disentangle, dismantle), arrugarse (Crinkle, furrow, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, shrivel up, wrinkle). (various references)

Swedish

tillknyckla, svikta (flinch, sag, waver, wilt, yield), krossas (crash, crush, pound), knöla, falla ihop (cave in, collapse, dilapidate, fall down, fall in), duka under (go under, succumb). (various references)

Turkish

kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, frill, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), devirmek (capsize, chop down, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crush, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside), çökertmek (bankrupt, cause to collapse, indent, overthrow). (various references)

Turkmen 

tokgalamak, яygyrmak (wrinkle 1), lokgalamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

м'ятися (crease, crush), м'яти (brake, champ, crush, rumple, wrinkle), звалитися (thud), зморщуватися (corrugate, crimple, wizen), зморшка (cockle, corrugation, crease, pucker, rugosity, wrinkle), жмакати (wad, wisp). (various references)

crump. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crumple": crumpled, crumples. (additional references)

Words ending with "crumple": uncrumple. (additional references)

Words containing "crumple": uncrumpled, uncrumples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crumple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crimle, Cromsley, crumpalls, crumpe, Crumpler, Krempel, scrumple. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lumper, rumple.

-2 letters: clump, cruel, crump, cupel, lemur, lucre, plume, puler, ulcer.

-3 letters: clue, culm, cure, curl, ecru, luce, lump, lure, merl, mule, mure, perm, plum, puce, pule, pure, purl, rule, rump.

-4 letters: cel, cep, cue, cum, cup, cur, ecu, elm, emu, leu, lum, mel, pec, per, pul, pur, rec, rem, rep, rue, rum.

+1 letter: clumpier, crumpled, crumples, plectrum.

+2 letters: crumplier, operculum, plectrums, uncrumple.

+3 letters: crumpliest, operculums, uncrumpled, uncrumples.

+4 letters: unempirical.

+5 letters: alphanumeric, computerless, computerlike, microcapsule, multipicture, pumpernickel, thermocouple.