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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However, critics said they pose a risk because they lack enough sufficient body areas that will crumple during a collision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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
FX president John Landgraf has for months forecast an imminent downturn of what he calls “peak TV,” predicting that production will crumple in the coming years because of an oversupply of unprofitable, little-watched TV.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2016
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
