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Definition of Rumple

1. Verb. Disturb the smoothness of. "Ruffle the surface of the water"

2. Verb. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds. "They rumple the sheets"; "She puckered her lips"

3. Verb. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased. "These fabrics rumple easily"; "This fabric won't wrinkle"

Definition of Rumple

1. v. t. & i. To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

2. n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle.

Definition of Rumple

1. Verb. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric. ¹

2. Verb. To muss. ¹

3. Verb. To tousle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rumple

1. to wrinkle [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES] - See also: wrinkle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumple

rumourmongered rumourmongering rumourmongers rumourous rumours rump rump and stump rump roast rump state rump states

rump steak rump steaks rumped rumpies rumping rumple (current term) rumple up rumpled rumples rumpless

rumplier rumpliest rumpling rumply rumpology rumps rumpus rumpus room rumpuses rumpy

Literary usage of Rumple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Tour Through the Southern and Western Territories of the United States of by John Pope (1888)
"... Lining—rumple the one, you rumple the other :" And as to my Lord Verulam, " Smell- fungus in his ..."

2. A complete dictionary of the English languageby Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1797)
"In To rumple, rump'l. ... rumple, rump'lf Pucker, rough or command. • RULER, rô'1-ùr. f. Governour, one that has the ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"a wrinkle, fold ; E. rimple, rumple, to wrinkle, tumble, ... See rumple. To Wring. To press or squeeze hard, to pinch or gripe, to put to pain. ..."

4. History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth by Benjamin F. Gue (1903)
"... serving from 1870 to 1892. At one time he received strong support for Judge of the Supreme Court, as he always ranked high as a jurist. JOHN NW rumple ..."

5. A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from the American Dictionary by Noah Webster (1833)
"I. to rumple. Rind, n. skin, bark, or outer coat Ri-my, a. full of rime, frosty. Ring, n. a circular thing, ornament for the finger, a sounding. ..."

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