crumpled
- adjective
- /ˈkrʌmpəld/
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arrugado
- Even as I say this, I feel my body settling over me, a crumpled, airless bag with no holes, no opening, and I would like nothing better than to curl up inside myself and go to sleep.
- look crumpled
I turned and found, crumpled on the grass, the faded red shirts.
- I turned and found, crumpled on the grass, the faded red shirts.
- And I remember this crumpled heater on the curb that really did irreparable damage to our family.
- And two little body bags sitting there with crumpled bits in and a bridesmaid's dress covered in claret and just not, not nice.
Examples
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He looked crumpled, grimy, and exhausted.
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Alex's black pants were crumpled on the floor at Sasha's feet.
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Let's say that you have a state of this balloon which is crumpled on both sides on the left as well as on the right.
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Love these little Savoy crumpled up leaves.
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Alex's black pants were crumpled on the floor at Sasha's feet.
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He had not changed out of his clothes from yesterday, so now he was more crumpled and disheveled than usual.
Synonyms
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1.5
Having small lines on skin or cloth
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3.7
Having small folds or wrinkles on the surface, like paper
Having a wrinkled, creased surface
Material with a permanent soft wrinkled texture
Antonyms
How Wrinkled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crumpled is easy to remember if you think of the small hard sound 'crump', like something being crushed into folds; the word came to mean 'pressed into creases' or bent out of shape. So when paper or metal is crumpled, it is pushed and folded into many creases.