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 scraggly gray wig had rumpled all the seriousness out of her hair.
From Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The embroidered calotte fell, and, in the twinkling of an eye, he had rumpled his hair all ends up in a most extravagant manner.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
He had rumpled his hair out of its usual order.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
