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rum⋅ple

[ruhm-puhl] 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.)


1. wrinkle, crease, muss.
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