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crumplecrum‧ple /ˈkrʌmpəl/ verb crumpleOrigin: 1300-1400 crump ‘to curl up’ (14-19 centuries), from crump, crumb ‘bent’ (11-18 centuries), from Old English VERB TABLEcrumple |
Present | I, you, we, they | crumple | | he, she, it | crumples | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | crumpled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have crumpled | | he, she, it | has crumpled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had crumpled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will crumple | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have crumpled |
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Present | I | am crumpling | | he, she, it | is crumpling | | you, we, they | are crumpling | Past | I, he, she, it | was crumpling | | you, we, they | were crumpling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been crumpling | | he, she, it | has been crumpling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been crumpling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be crumpling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been crumpling |
- As the bullet tore through his leg, he crumpled to the ground.
- He crumpled his shirt into a ball and threw it into the laundry basket.
- The whole front of the car crumpled upon impact with the wall.
- He crumpled to the ice with a shattered fourth cervical vertebra, his body paralyzed from the neck down.
- Mitchell crumpled both and pitched them into the wastebasket.
- The rickety wood splintered under the impact and Jack crumpled, blood welling from a gash on his forehead.
to press something so hard that it breaks, folds, or becomes flat► squash to damage something, especially something soft, by pressing it and making it flat: · Someone sat on my hat and squashed it.· He wouldn't even squash a fly, let alone murder someone.squash something flat: · He squashed the can flat between his hands. ► crush to press something so hard that it gets damaged or broken into pieces: · His leg was crushed in the accident.· Coconuts have to be crushed in order to extract their oil.· He closed his fist over the flower, crushing it into a pulp. ► flatten to squash something until it is completely flat: · He fell against me so heavily I thought he was going to flatten me.· Her little car was completely flattened in the accident. ► mash to press fruit or cooked vegetables with a fork or similar tool, until they are soft and smooth: · Mash the bananas and add them to the mixture.mash something up/mash up something: · Boil the potatoes and then mash them up. ► grind to break something such as coffee beans or corn into powder, using a machine or special tool: · Grind some black pepper over the salad.grind something into something: · These huge stones were once used for grinding wheat into flour. ► pound to press or hit something repeatedly, especially using a tool, so that it breaks into very small pieces or becomes soft or flat: · He pounded some garlic and ginger and put it in the pan.pound something flat: · Here the loose earth had been pounded flat by thousands of feet. ► press to crush a fruit or vegetable using special equipment to remove the juice, oil etc: · Friends come to help us gather the crop and press the grapes.· Enough olives had been gathered and pressed to produce 1000 litres of cooking oil. ► screw up to press a piece of paper or cloth into the shape of a ball: screw up something: · Sally screwed up the letter she was writing and threw it into the wastebasket.screw something/it up: · He screwed his handkerchief up into a ball and put it in his pocket. ► crumple/crumple up to press a piece of paper or cloth so that it becomes smaller or bent: · He crumpled the cheque and threw it across the room.· Crumple up the bedclothes so it looks as though you slept there. ADVERB► up· I must have made a strange sight, crumpled up on the floor trying to read that opening paragraph.· He crumpled up some paper in his fist and handed it to me quickly and got back into his chair.· Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it.· And looking like a big tin can, about to be crumpled up.· She thought about the one with the smashed head crumpling up.· He crumpled up the burrito wrapper and bounced it off the rim of the trash can.· Then he looked in the car, saw my father crumpled up and started to speak.· I spent a couple of hours crumpling up sheets of paper and trying to throw them past Raffles. NOUN► face· She apparently thought better of it, but her face started to crumple as if she was going to cry.· Betsy's face crumpled a bit, and Jimmy put an arm around her shoulders and gave her a squeeze. ► floor· The phone, her desk, the crumpled shape on the floor that was her jeans, everything looked different.· Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.· I must have made a strange sight, crumpled up on the floor trying to read that opening paragraph.· She looked down at her gown, crumpled on the floor where she had flung it.· Her little summer dress and leather jacket crumpled up on the floor where she had left them when she was happy. ► paper· Lissa crumpled the paper into her clammy palm.· He reached in and pulled out some crumpled pieces of paper.· You crumple the paper and begin daydreaming to ease the frustration.· He crumpled up some paper in his fist and handed it to me quickly and got back into his chair.· The crumpled paper turned out to be more funnies that he had painstakingly cut out.· Zung accessorized his models with crumpled paper bag hats trimmed in a band of lambskin.· He pinched some out and cleaned it on a crumpled paper bag, not knowing what to say.· I finished one bagel and crumpled the paper it had come wrapped in. VERB► start· As he starts to crumple at my feet, I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright. 1[intransitive, transitive] (also crumple up) to crush something so that it becomes smaller and bent, or to be crushed in this way: Dan tore the page out, crumpled it, and threw it in the wastepaper basket.2[intransitive] if your face crumples, you suddenly look sad or disappointed, as if you might cry3[intransitive] if your body crumples, you fall down in an uncontrolled waycrumple to The blow hit him on the head and he crumpled to the ground. |