Crumple: Definition and part of speech

Crumple

  1. v. i. To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
  2. v. t. To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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