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Verb: rumple  rúm-pul
  1. Become wrinkled, crumpled or creased
    "This fabric won't rumple";
    - crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle
     
  2. Disturb the smoothness of
    "The wind rumpled her hair";
    - ruffle, ruffle up, mess up
     
  3. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    "The child rumpled the bedsheets";
    - pucker, cockle, crumple, knit

Derived forms: rumpled, rumples, rumpling

Type of: disarrange, fold, fold up

Encyclopedia: Rumple