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rumpled

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rum·ple  (rmpl)
v. rum·pled, rum·pling, rum·ples
v.tr.
To wrinkle or form into folds or creases.
v.intr.
To become wrinkled or creased.
n.
An irregular or untidy crease.
[Perhaps Dutch rompelen, from Middle Dutch rumpelen.]
rumply adj.
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Adj.1.rumpledrumpled - in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, tousled
untidy - not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
Translations
rumpled [ˈrʌmpəld] adj
[clothes, sheets] → fripé(e)
[person, hair] → ébouriffé(e)
rump steak n → romsteck m
rumpled
adj clothes, sheets → zerknittert; person → unordentlich; hair → zerzaust


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He rumpled his hair with a quick, excited gesture, which with him often announces a new determination, and I could see that my suggestion took hold of him.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
Didn't that Dough-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always finds the old man's hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on it?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Fix got up in a somewhat rumpled condition, and, looking at his adversary, coldly said, "Have you done?
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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