crumple
verb (used with object)
to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
will crumple
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future tenseof crumple.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Every step brings risk that his muscles will cave, his legs will crumple, and calculations constantly nag in the back of his mind to prepare for a fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
You can only try to describe Avery’s colors, knowing in advance your attempts will crumple like a spinnaker turned into the wind.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
As surely as the leaves come off the trees in fall, toward the end of any football match that goes to extra time, a player will crumple to the turf with cramp.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2018
North Africa is advancing into Mediterranean Europe, and over the next few tens of millions of years its shores will crumple into a chain of snowy peaks.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2013
Fear that a $25,000 car will crumple like a toy in an accident, whereas a $50,000 car will wrap your loved ones in a cocoon of impregnable steel.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
