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Verb: rumple  rúm-pul
  1. Disturb the smoothness of
    "rumple the surface of the water"
    - ruffle, ruffle up, mess up
     
  2. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    "She rumpled her lips"
    - pucker, cockle, crumple, knit
     
  3. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
    "This fabric won't rumple"
    - crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle

Derived forms: rumpled, rumpling, rumples

Type of: crease, crinkle, crisp, disarrange, fold, fold up, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle