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crumpledcrum‧pled /ˈkrʌmpəld/ adjective - crumpled soda cans
- Don't sit around in your suit. It'll get crumpled.
- I spent the night under a bridge, using a crumpled blanket as a bed.
- Jo pulled a crumpled piece of paper out of her pocket.
- She reached into her pocket and handed the clerk a crumpled ten-dollar bill.
- They found the boy crumpled on the pavement.
- Behind one souvenir from a day trip to Brighton was a crumpled 100-franc note.
- Grimm tugged a crumpled purple handful from his pocket and restored some shape to the hat.
- Kirov stooped over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket.
- Rory was crumpled head-down into the floor, his feet, above his head, still tangled in bedclothes.
- She'd come creeping back again, complaining about Dad's crumpled collars and his scuffed shoes, sprucing him up.
- The bright one was moving in a silvery blur, and there were quite a few dark-furred heaps lying crumpled nearby.
- The men lay crumpled and motionless, open-mouthed, their thin legs tangled together.
when something gets folds in it► crease if clothes crease , they get unwanted folds or lines in them when you leave them somewhere, or when you wear them: · These trousers will crease if you don't hang them up properly.· Linen is a beautiful fabric but it creases very easily and needs to be pressed regularly. ► creased clothes that are creased have unwanted folds or lines in them because you have left them somewhere or been wearing them: · His shirt was creased at the back where he had been lying down on it.· Professor Haines finally showed up wearing a badly creased suit with stains on the front.get creased: · Don't put your shirts in there - they'll get creased. ► crumpled if papers or clothes are crumpled , they have a lot of unwanted lines and folds, and look old and untidy: · She reached into her pocket and handed the clerk a crumpled ten-dollar bill.· I spent the night under a bridge, using a crumpled blanket as a bed. 1 (also crumpled up) crushed into a smaller bent shape: Tom flattened the crumpled paper against his knee.2cloth or clothing that is crumpled has a lot of lines or folds in it: an old man with untidy hair and a crumpled suit3someone who is crumpled somewhere is lying still in a strange position after they have fallen |