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rum⋅ple

[ruhm-puh

verb, -pled, -pling, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to crumple or crush into wrinkles: to rumple a sheet of paper.

2.	to ruffle; tousle (sometimes fol. by up): The wind rumpled her hair.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to become wrinkled or crumpled: Tissue rumples easily.

–noun

4.	a wrinkle or irregular fold; crease.

Origin:
1595–1605; < D rompelen (v.), rompel (n.)

Synonyms:
1. wrinkle, crease, muss.

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rum·ple (rŭm'pəl)

v.   rum·pled, rum·pling, rum·ples

v.   tr.
To wrinkle or form into folds or creases.
v.   intr.
To become wrinkled or creased.
n.  An irregular or untidy crease.

[Perhaps Dutch rompelen, from Middle Dutch rumpelen.]
rum'ply adj.

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Rumple

Rum"ple\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Rumpling.] [Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, G. r["u]mpfen to wrinkle, MHG. r["u]mphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, ? to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. --Burke.

Rumple

Rum"ple\, n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle. --Dryden.

rumple (v.)

1603, possibly a variant of rimple "to wrinkle" (14c.), from O.E. hrympel; possibly influenced by M.Du. rumpelen.

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