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
The green shade was pulled so fiercely forward that a fringe of hair stood up in a crown where the elastic had rumpled it.
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz
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 May Sinclair
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 Thomas Bailey Aldrich
