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Rumple   /rˈəmpəl/   Listen
Rumple

verb
(past & past part. rumpled; pres. part. rumpling)
1.
Disturb the smoothness of.  Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up.
2.
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.  Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker.
3.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle.






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"Rumple" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon my houtie croutie (hams), I lookit owre my rumple routie (haunch), And saw John Heezlum Peezlum Playing on ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... ambulance an orderly of the R. A. M. C. balanced himself, gaunt-eyed, unshaven, caked from head to foot in yellow mud, the red cross on his untidy brassard looming faintly from its grimy background. Beyond the soles with their worn and glaring nails, a disorderly rumple of brown army blankets, and between the stretchers a confusion of entangled haversacks, water-bottles and equipment, there was nothing to be seen of the patients, though a thin blue haze which curled along the tilt showed that one at least was well ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace



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