1. rumple(v = verb.contact) mess up, ruffle, ruffle up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
is one way to disarrange
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
2. rumple(v = verb.contact) cockle, crumple, knit, pucker - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
is one way to crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle
Sample sentences:
They rumple the sheets
3. rumple(v = verb.change) crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
is one way to fold, fold up
Sample sentences:
The sheets didn't rumple; These fabrics rumple easily
To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. [1913 Webster]
"They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats." [1913 Webster]
A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
rumple, v.tr. & intr. make or become creased or ruffled.
Derivative:
rumply adj.
Etymology:
obs. rumple (n.) f. MDu. rompel f. rompe wrinkle
VB be disorderly, ferment, play at cross-purposes, put out of order, derange, ravel, ruffle, rumple.
VB derange, disarrange, misarrange, displace, misplace, mislay, discompose, disorder, deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize, embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble, shuffle, randomize, huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot, bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder, muss, break the ranks, disconcert, convulse, break in upon, unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear, turn topsy-turvy, bedevil, complicate, involve, perplex, confound, imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle, rumple, litter, scatter, mix, rearrange.
VB be rough, go against the grain, render-rough, roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.
VB fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.