Synonyms of the word rumple


RUMPLECOCKLE - CREASE - CRINKLE - CRISP - CRUMPLE - DISARRANGE - FOLD - KNIT - PUCKER - RUCKLE - RUFFLE - SCRUNCH - WRINKLE

rumple

  • v. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
  • v. To muss.
  • v. To tousle.

cockle

  • n. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  • n. The shell of such a mollusk.
  • n. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  • n. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker.
  • n. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep.
  • n. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
  • n. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.
  • n. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
  • n. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.
  • v. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
  • n. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.

crease

  • n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
  • n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
  • n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
  • n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
  • v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
  • v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
  • n. Archaic form of kris.

crinkle

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
  • v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  • n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

crisp

  • adj. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
  • adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
  • adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
  • adj. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
  • adj. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
  • adj. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
  • adj. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a…
  • adj. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
  • adj. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
  • adj. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
  • adj. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
  • n. (Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
  • v. (transitive) To make crisp.
  • v. (intransitive) To become crisp.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To curl; to form into ringlets, for example hair, or the nap of cloth.
  • v. (transitive, dated) to interweave, like the branches of trees.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To undulate or ripple.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.

crumple

  • n. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
  • v. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
  • v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

disarrange

  • v. To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.

fold

  • v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  • v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
  • v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  • v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
  • v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
  • v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
  • v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
  • v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
  • v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
  • n. An act of folding.
  • n. A bend or crease.
  • n. Any correct move in origami.
  • n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
  • n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
  • n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
  • n. A group of sheep or goats.
  • n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
  • n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
  • n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
  • n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
  • n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  • n. (figuratively) Home, family.
  • n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
  • n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
  • v. To confine sheep in a fold.
  • n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

knit

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled…
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
  • v. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow together.
  • v. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
  • v. (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
  • v. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  • v. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
  • n. A knitted garment.

pucker

  • v. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
  • n. A fold or wrinkle.
  • n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

ruckle

  • v. To crease or wrinkle.
  • n. A disordered collection.
  • n. A wrinkle.

ruffle

  • n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
  • n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
  • n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
  • n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
  • v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
  • v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
  • v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
  • v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
  • v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
  • v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  • v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

scrunch

  • v. To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
  • n. A crunching noise.

wrinkle

  • n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
  • n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
  • n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
  • n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
  • v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
  • v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
  • v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
  • n. (US, dialect) A winkle.

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