Rumple

Definition: Rumple

Rumple

Verb

1. Disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water".

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

3. 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 "rumple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms: Rumple

Arrangement

Turn topsy-turvy; (invert); bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple; (fold).

Disorder

Put out of order; derange; ravel; ruffle, rumple.

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: Rumple

Books

• For His Cause a Little House: A Hundred Year History of Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church (reference)

• Quincy Rumple and the Sasquatch of Phantom Cove (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rumple of the Bailey, Vol. 19 - Children of the Devil/The Miscarriage of Justice (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "rumple": rumple-headed.

Albanian

çrregulloj (confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disturb, downgrade, mess, tumble, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غضن (buckle, crease, pucker, purse, spray, wrinkle), ‏تشعث, ‏جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle), ‏شعث (dishevel, ruffle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смачквам (crease, crush, jam out, press, ruck, scrunch, smash, squash, wad), разчорлям (dishevel, ruffle), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), гънка (circumvolution, cockle, corrugation, crease, doubling, fold, kink, lap, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, wrinkle), набръчквам (cockle, corrugate, crumple, furrow, pucker, purse, ruck, seam), бръчка (cockle, corrugation, line, plica, plication, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rugosity, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Czech

zmuchlat (Crinkle, crumple, crush), zmaèkat (Crinkle, screw up, wrinkle), svraštit (corrugate, pucker, ridgy, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references)

Farsi 

مچاله کردن (Crumple, Scrunch, Tousle), چروک دادن , تاه وچین دادن . (various references)

Finnish

pörröttää (back-comb, ruffle). (various references)

French

froisser (ruckle, ruffle), friper, chiffonner (ruffle), ébouriffer (ruffle). (various references)

German

zerknittern (crease, Crinkle, crumble, crumple, to crumple), zerknüllen (crease, crumble, crumple up, crush, scrunch up). (various references)

Greek 

ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, knit, pucker, ruck, shrink, shrivel, wimple, wrinkle), ζαρωματιά (rimple, wrinkle), ανακατώνω (admix, alligate, commingle, confound, intermix, jumble, mash, mingle, mix, muss, puddle, riffle, shuffle, tousle), τσαλακώνω (crumple, muss, ruffle). (various references)

Hungarian

összegyûrõdik, összegyûr (cockle, crumple, pucker). (various references)

Indonesian

mengusutkan (tousle), menggumalkan (crumple, wrinkle). (various references)

Italian

Raggrinzimento della buccia, sgualcire (crease), arruffare (mat, ruffle). (various references)

Manx

rucksal (jostle, shake, tousle), rockey (pucker, purse). (various references)

Pig Latin

umpleray.(various references)

Portuguese

enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, fret, furrow, pucker, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wrinkle), criar rugas, amarrotar (cockle, crease, crumble, crumple, ruffle, tousle), amarotar-se, amarfanhar-se, amarfanhar (crease, crumble). (various references)

Romanian

zburli (ruffle), supãra (anger, annoy, ballyrag, chafe, exasperate, grieve, inconvenience, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nettle, offend, pester, pinch, plague, provoke, reck, rile, spite, tease, trouble, vex), sifona (ruffle, siphon, take it ill), se zburli (ruffle), se ciufuli, mototoli (Crinkle, crumple, crush, Rive, ruffle, tumble), ciufuli (dishevel, ruffle, tousle), boţi (Rive, tousle). (various references)

Russian 

мять (crease, crumple, crush, mill), ерошить волосы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nabrati (crease, pleat, tuck), izgužvati (bedraggle, crumple, wrinkle), gužvati se (crease, wrinkle). (various references)

Spanish

manosear (finger, fumble, handle, lark about, lark around, paw, pull about, tamper, thumb, tinker, touch up), desgreñar (dishevel), chafar (muss), arrugar (crease, furrow, line, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, screw up, seam, shrivel, wrinkle, wrinkles), arruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, fold, furrow, kink, line, pucker, ridge, ruck, ruffle, seam, wrinkle), ajar (muss). (various references)

Swedish

skrynkla till (crush). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ยุ่ง, รอยยับ, ยับ (ruck). (various references)

Turkish

karman çorman etmek (confuse, hash up, make a hash of, mix up, rough up, shuffle), kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, frill, furrow, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, scatter, strew, tumble), buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up). (various references)

Ukrainian

куйовдити (tousle), м'яти (brake, champ, crumple, crush, wrinkle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rumple": rumpled, rumples, rumpless. (additional references)

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

Words containing "rumple": crumpled, crumples, uncrumpled, uncrumples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rumple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Krempel, Rampal, Rampello, rempel, Rumpoe, Rupel, Rupolei, Ruspoli. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lumper.

-1 letter: lemur, plume, puler.

-2 letters: lump, lure, merl, mule, mure, perm, plum, pule, pure, purl, rule, rump.

-3 letters: elm, emu, leu, lum, mel, per, pul, pur, rem, rep, rue, rum, ump.

-4 letters: el, em, er, me, mu, pe, re, um, up.

+1 letter: crumple, lumpers, lumpier, plumber, plumier, plumper, replumb, rumpled, rumples.

+2 letters: clumpier, crumpled, crumples, empurple, glumpier, impurely, plectrum, plumbers, plumbery, plumeria, plummier, plumpers, promulge, replumbs, rumpless, rumplier.

+3 letters: crumplier, empurpled, empurples, operculum, penumbral, petroleum, plectrums, plumerias, promulged, promulges, puerilism, replumbed, reptilium, rumpliest, supermale, supremely, uncrumple.

+4 letters: crumpliest, empurpling, multiplier, multipower, operculums, parimutuel, permutable, petrolatum, petroleums, plumberies, poultrymen, presumable, presumably, presumedly, promulgate, propylaeum, psalterium, puerilisms, replumbing, subproblem, supermales, supermodel, uncrumpled, uncrumples.