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Crumple

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Verb

1. break down, collapse, crumble, crumple, tumble

fall apart

Example Sentences:
'the building crumbled after the explosion'
'Negotiations broke down'

2. buckle, crumple

fold or collapse

Example Sentences:
'His knees buckled'

3. cockle, crumple, knit, pucker, rumple

to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Example Sentences:
'She puckered her lips'

4. crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle

become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

Example Sentences:
'This fabric won't wrinkle'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Crumple

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verb
1. (when intr, often foll by up)
to collapse or cause to collapse
his courage crumpled
2. (when tr, often foll by up)
to crush or cause to be crushed so as to form wrinkles or creases
3. (intransitive)
to shrink; shrivel
noun
4. 
a loose crease or wrinkle

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Crumple

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈcrumpled or ˈcrumpling
1. 
to crush together into creases or wrinkles
2. 
to cause to collapse
verb intransitive
3. 
to become crumpled
4. 
to fall or break down; collapse
noun
5. 
a crease or wrinkle

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Crumple

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v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples
v.tr.
1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple.
2. To cause to collapse.
v.intr.
1. To become wrinkled.
2. To collapse: a regime that finally crumpled.
n.
An irregular fold, crease, or wrinkle.

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