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rumpled
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Word definitions for rumpled in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rumple \Rum"ple\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Rumpling .] [Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, G. r["u]mpfen to wrinkle, MHG. r["u]mphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, ? to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
wrinkled or crumpled v (en-past of: rumple)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers [syn: disheveled , dishevelled , frowzled ...
Usage examples of rumpled.
Kara, her black hair rumpled down her back, flushed with anger and working at untying and ungagging her mother.
August morning, you a creature of light and I a middle-aged man in a rumpled suit.
When he was met by a look almost as blank as the black eyes gazing heavenward, he reached into the front of his rumpled shirt.
His gaze touched upon the rumpled bed and the blotchy evidence of her lost virtue without pause.
Pulling together a tight smile, he set her down and rumpled her hair with a gentle hand.
It was hard to settle down in the big bed alone, especially when the sheets were already more than a little rumpled from their passing passion.
He clicked off the phone and hurled it onto his rumpled, unmade king-size bed.
She was a tangled, rumpled mess, but now that she was in the light, she was ready to do battle.
Darkroom, I assumed, until the young man opened the door wearing a ratty robe over rumpled pajamas.
A woman at the pay phone bank beside me, who could have been a hooker or an heiress, in a leather coat with a wolf fur collar and snakeskin boots, looked at my rumpled, sandy clothes, then crinkled her nose as if she smelled a fart.
A sleepy young man in a rumpled sport coat stood beside one of the jail-house bulls.
When I got out of the Mustang, Red climbed out of the station wagon dressed in a rumpled camouflage suit covered with faded paint ball spots, a floppy bush hat covering his hair, large dark goggles protecting his eyes, and his facial skin slathered with sunblock.
The housekeeper looked at us oddly, rumpled and sleepy in our fancy clothes.
Lee looked at me oddly, then glanced down at the folded, rumpled paper.
Nowhere in the mirror could she see a trace of the careless colonial girl, or the ragged slave, or even the rumpled trainee.