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rumple

verb

1 rumple

Disturb the smoothness of.

synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up.

Roget 59: be disorderly etc. adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.    put out of order; derange etc. 61; ravel etc. 219; ruffle, rumple.    ... show more

Roget 61: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, ... show more

Roget 256: be rough etc. adj.; go against the grain.    render-rough etc. adj.; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, ... show more

2 rumple

To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.

synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker.

Dutch: kreukelen, kreuken, verfomfaaien, verkreukelen

3 rumple

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.

synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle.

Roget 258: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, ... show more

Dutch: ineenfrommelen, verfrommelen


noun

Roget 258: fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: agitate, beat, beat up, bristle, churn, churn up, clutter, cocker, cockle, convulse, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, crush, derange ... show more.

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