crumple

pronunciation

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  • Verb:
    fall apart
    fold or collapse
    to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

Word Origin

crumple (v.)
c. 1300, crumplen, frequentative of crumpen "to curl up" (from Old English crump "bent, crooked"). Related: Crumpled; crumpling.

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Example

1. Crumple a few sheets into balls and place them in with piles of kindling .
2. You can crumple a piece of paper , but not a plank of wood .
3. When muscular millionaires ( the players ) fight brash billionaires ( the owners ) , neither side will crumple easily .
4. It all started in the mid-1990s , when two teams of researchers were trying to figure out how fast the universe was expanding , in order to predict whether it would keep spreading out forever , or if it would eventually crumple back in on itself in a " big crunch . "

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