Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple.
  • intransitive verb To cause to collapse.
  • intransitive verb To become wrinkled.
  • intransitive verb To collapse.
  • noun An irregular fold, crease, or wrinkle.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which is crumpled, shriveled, or pressed into wrinkles; an irregular fold or wrinkle.
  • To make crooked; deform; distort into curves.
  • To draw or press into irregular folds; rumple; wrinkle.
  • To contract into wrinkles; shrink; shrivel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together.
  • transitive verb To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
  • verb transitive To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
  • verb transitive To cause to collapse.
  • verb intransitive To become wrinkled.
  • verb intransitive To collapse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
  • verb fall apart
  • verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  • verb fold or collapse

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English crumplen, probably frequentative of crumpen, to curl up; see crumpet.]

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