English dictionary
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English verb: rumple | |||
| 1. | rumple (contact) disturb the smoothness of | ||
| Samples | Ruffle the surface of the water. | ||
| Synonyms | mess up, ruffle, ruffle up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disarrange | ||
| 2. | rumple (contact) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | ||
| Samples | She puckered her lips. | ||
| Examples | They rumple the sheets | ||
| Synonyms | cockle, crumple, knit, pucker | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle | ||
| Verb group | draw | ||
| 3. | rumple (change) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | ||
| Samples | This fabric won't wrinkle. | ||
| Examples | The sheets didn't rumple, These fabrics rumple easily | ||
| Synonyms | crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fold, fold up | ||
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