rumple
verb (used with object)
to crumple or crush into wrinkles.
have rumpled
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present perfectof rumple.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Some of the beds are made, and some still have rumpled sheets bunched up at the bottom or the side.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
She might have rumpled or soiled it, and so feared discovery.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George
Sleep seems to be altogether too dainty a thing to nest in any brain that strange thoughts have rumpled.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
