Word Meanings - CRUMPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRUMPLE)

• Corrugate
• Furrow
• groove
• rumple
• crumple
• wrinkle
• ruffle
• crease
• Rumple
• Ruffle
• pucker
• corrugate
• derange
• roughen

Related words: (words related to CRUMPLE)

• ROUGHEN
  To make rough. (more info) Etym:
• RUMPLED
  Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• CREASE
  See TENNISON
• PUCKER
  1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. 2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
• RUFFLER
  1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• DERANGE
  1. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
• RUMPLESS
  Destitute of a rump.
• WRINKLE
  1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough
• CREASER
  A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight. (more info) 1. A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by. 2. A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet
• CORRUGATE
  Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
• RUFFLE
  To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. Tennyson. 7. To
• GROOVER
  1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.
• FURROW
  Etym: 1. To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. Shak. 2. To mark with channels or with wrinkles. Thou canst help time to furrow me with age. Shak. Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears. Byron.
• RUFFLELESS
  Having no ruffle.
• CRUMPLE
  To contract irregularly; to show wrinkless after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• WATER-FURROW
  To make water furrows in.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• UNRUMPLE
  To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,