Dictionary Definition
crumple
Verb
1 fall apart; "the building crimbled after the
explosion"; "Negociations broke down" [syn: crumble, tumble, break down,
collapse]
2 fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn:
buckle]
3 to gather something into small wrinkles or
folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, knit]
4 become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This
fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmpəl
Verb
Translations
to cause to collapse
to become wrinkled
- Finnish: rypistyä
to collapse
- Finnish: lyyhistyä
- ttbc Bosnian: zgužvati
- ttbc Croatian: zgužvati
- ttbc Serbian:
- ttbc Spanish: (transitive) arrugar, (intransitive) arrugarse
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bend,
break, bristle, buckle, cave, cocker, cockle, collapse, contort, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crook, crush, distort, fold, fold up, furrow, gnarl, go, knit, knot, mangle, pucker, purse, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw, scrunch, set on edge, shirr, spring, turn, turn awry, twist, wad, warp, wimple, wrench, wrest, wring, wrinkle, writhe, yield