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crumple Verb [-pling, -pled] 1. to crush or become crushed into untidy wrinkles or creases 2. to collapse in an untidy heap: her father lay crumpled on the floor Noun an untidy crease or wrinkle [obsolete crump to bend] crumply adj
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I can't help imagining that perhaps just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jack-knife and nip us. In vain he sat before paper, attending on inspiration; that heavenly nymph, beyond suggesting the words 'my dear father,' remained obstinately silent; and presently John would crumple up the sheet and decide, as soon as he had 'a good chance,' to carry the money home in person. For there was a time when there were no newspapers, nothing for father to read at breakfast-time, and no old newspapers to crumple up and light fires with. |
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