rumple
verb (used with object)
to crumple or crush into wrinkles.
unrumpled
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a word derived from
rumple.
Example Sentences
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Mary looked very good and sweet, unrumpled and clean, sitting on the board beside Laura.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The sight of those smooth, unrumpled blankets struck fear in Penelope’s heart.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
This was easily trimmed, but others took so much time and attention that pasteboard boxes were made to tie over them at night, that they might be unrumpled in the morning.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
Her pink lawn dress was rather tumbled by reason of her wriggling and jumping about, but Dorothy's frocks were rarely unrumpled after she had had them on ten minutes.
From Two Little Women by Carolyn Wells
When she could see him no longer, she fell back, completely crushing her still clean unrumpled cap, weeping and sobbing in the agony of death itself.
From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon
