rumple
verb (used with object)
to crumple or crush into wrinkles.
had rumpled
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past perfectof rumple.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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However, I am told he might have had "rumpled pants" one day, for during a downpour he took off his topcoat to put it around a young woman who had none.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes; a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Suppose Cinderella had rumpled the prince's hair all over his forehead, how would he have liked it?
From The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
She was a very lovely picture of contrite confusion as she put up both gleaming arms and rearranged the dark hair he had rumpled.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
She would take it out of their arms, and smooth its hair and its clothes, and kiss it significantly, scowling sullen-sweet, as if their embraces had rumpled it and done it harm.
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
