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Definition of Crumpled
1. Adjective. Of metal e.g.. "Dented fenders"
Definition of Crumpled
1. Adjective. Squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds. ¹
2. Verb. (past of crumple) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crumpled
1. crumple [v] - See also: crumple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumpled
Literary usage of Crumpled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1902)
"sand, other similar strata have been violently crumpled, while horizontal beds
lie directly upon them. These contortions may have been produced by the ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1864)
"XIII—ON crumpled LAMINATION IN SHALES. By GH KINAHAN, Geological Survey of Ireland.
[Read November 11, 1863.] IN shales the lamination is generally ..."
3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"crumpled shales as seen along the Jayuya road near the summit of the range it at
either end is not yet determined, but it is believed to extend much farther ..."
4. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"crumpled Laminae.—In highly-foliated rocks the laminae are not plane, but wrinkled
and contorted, sometimes gnarled and crumpled to an intense degree. ..."
5. Geology by Archibald Geikie (1884)
"Proofs that the Rocks of the Earth's Crust have been tilted, crumpled, and broken.
218. If you think about the movements described in the two previous ..."
6. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvement of the by William Withering (1830)
"Gills broad, crumpled, waved at the edge. Pileus very convex, four inches over,
edge turned in. Stem four or five inches high, near half an inch diameter, ..."
7. Nature and the Bible: A Course of Lectures Delivered in New York, in by Sir John William Dawson (1875)
"That this process actually occurred, not once only, but repeatedly, we know from
the folded and crumpled condition of the rocks along their old lines of ..."
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