Crumpled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crumple \Crum"ple\ (kr[u^]m"p'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crumpled}
     (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crumpling} (-pl[i^]ng).] [Dim. fr.
     crump, a.]
     To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together;
     to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
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           They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently
           scanned every wrinkle that could be made. --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crumpled
       adj 1: having wrinkles; "crumpled paper"; "her skirt had become
              creased"; "a rumpled gray suit" [syn: {creased}, {rumpled}]
       2: of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front
          end"; "dented fenders" [syn: {bent}, {dented}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "crumpled":
     anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, bent, bowed, cockeyed, cockled,
     cockly, contorted, corrugate, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crazy,
     creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crooked, crunched,
     deviative, distorted, furrowed, gravelly, harsh, ironbound,
     irregular, jagged, jaggy, knitted, knotted, labyrinthine, lopsided,
     nonsymmetric, one-sided, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, ragged,
     ridged, rimpled, rippled, rockbound, rocky, rucked, rugged, rugose,
     rugous, rumpled, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly,
     scraggy, serrate, serrated, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, sprung,
     stony, tortuous, twisted, unsymmetric, warped, wrinkled, wrinkly