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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crumpled
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ crumpled soda cans
▪ Don't sit around in your suit. It'll get crumpled.
▪ I spent the night under a bridge, using a crumpled blanket as a bed.
▪ Jo pulled a crumpled piece of paper out of her pocket.
▪ She reached into her pocket and handed the clerk a crumpled ten-dollar bill.
▪ They found the boy crumpled on the pavement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind one souvenir from a day trip to Brighton was a crumpled 100-franc note.
▪ Grimm tugged a crumpled purple handful from his pocket and restored some shape to the hat.
▪ Kirov stooped over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket.
▪ Rory was crumpled head-down into the floor, his feet, above his head, still tangled in bedclothes.
▪ She'd come creeping back again, complaining about Dad's crumpled collars and his scuffed shoes, sprucing him up.
▪ The bright one was moving in a silvery blur, and there were quite a few dark-furred heaps lying crumpled nearby.
▪ The men lay crumpled and motionless, open-mouthed, their thin legs tangled together.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crumpled

Crumple \Crum"ple\ (kr[u^]m"p'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling (-pl[i^]ng).] [Dim. fr. crump,

  1. ] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

    They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made.
    --Addison.

Wiktionary
crumpled

  1. Squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds. v

  2. (en-past of: crumple)

WordNet
crumpled

  1. adj. having wrinkles; "crumpled paper"; "her skirt had become creased"; "a rumpled gray suit" [syn: creased, rumpled]

  2. of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders" [syn: bent, dented]

Usage examples of "crumpled".

She was wearing a crumpled Oxford-blue shirt tucked into black rugby shorts, white pumps on her feet, no socks.

He was lying on the cot where he’d been dumped the night before, crumpled olive-green blankets wound tightly round his legs.

The first burning cabin suddenly crumpled up, blowing out ephemeral spires of brilliant sparks.

The superstructure crumpled up, large chunks being flung aside by the tremendous jet of water.

Craters overlapped, producing a crumpled landscape of unstable cones and holes.

Erick’s mind automatically directed the X-ray lasers towards the hole revealed by the crumpled sheet of metal as it twirled off towards the stars.

His grey suit jacket was hanging off the back of one of the chairs, revealing a crumpled blue shirt.

The fallen knight was rising to his feet, crumpled armour straightening out.

Nose, wings, and tailplane crumpled and tore, barbed fragments spinning off into the night.

The man flew backwards five yards through the air, hitting the sidewalk in a crumpled sprawl.

A long wretched wail fluted out of his lips as he crumpled onto the floor.

The individual wedges collapsed and crumpled against each other, softened and sagging from the immense thermal input to descend in slippery serpentine riots.

He crashed into one of the flimsy stalls which crumpled, folding about him.

Two hundred kilometres ahead, the asteroid’s features were resolving, crumpled dust-grey rock speared by metallic spires and panels.

They were both captains, he in crumpled overalls but still with the silver star on his shoulder, she in an immaculate Edenist blue satin ship-tunic.