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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrumplerum‧ple /ˈrʌmpəl/ verb [transitive] UNTIDYto make hair, clothes etc less tidy He rumpled her hair playfully. —rumpled adjective the slightly rumpled bed a rumpled linen suit→ See Verb table
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rumple• A rumpled bed is wedged behind the seats.• Unlike the rest of us, he was not wearing a rumpled flight suit.• The white sheet was rumpled from her restless tossing, her book flung to the floor.• She felt a fool, lying on the floor with her skirt rumpled over her knees.• He wore an expensive-looking dark suit, but so creased and rumpled that it hung oddly even from this distance.• And he liked her like this, when she was rumpled with sleep and undefended by make-up.• My inappropriate clothes, my rumpled yen, even the wobbly fusuma all seemed to signal how out of place I was.
Origin rumple (1500-1600) Dutch rompelen
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