| 单词 | rumple |
| 释义 | rumple (once / 3885 pages) v To mess something up or disarrange it is to rumple it. Even if you make your bed neatly in the morning, your dog might jump up and rumple it as soon as you leave for school. When you take something smooth or neat and make it wrinkled or crumpled, you rumple it. A dad might have the annoying habit of always wanting to rumple his son's perfectly combed hair, for example. And if you fall asleep in your tuxedo, you'll rumple it too. Experts think that rumple started as a variation on the now-obsolete verb rimple, "to wrinkle." WORD FAMILYrumple: rumpled, rumples, rumpling USAGE EXAMPLESWilliams plays his ex-wife; she is sassy, rumpled, no-nonsense, with splotchy roots. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) That was the night that, in a gesture that for some viewers said more about the host than the guest, Fallon rumpled Trump's hair. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) He wore a faded green polo with a rumpled collar, lightly patterned across the midsection with dark bands of drying sweat. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1v disturb the smoothness of Syn|Hyper mess up, ruffle, ruffle up disarrange destroy the arrangement or order of 2v to gather something into small wrinkles or folds Syn|Hyper cockle, crumple, knit, pucker draw contract crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in 3v become wrinkled or crumpled or creased Syn|Hyper crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle fold, fold up become folded or folded up |
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