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crumple up

crumple up verb: to become crumpled or messily folded up.

Verb

crumple up (third-person singular simple present crumples up, present participle crumpling up, simple past and past participle crumpled up)

  1. (intransitive) To become crumpled or messily folded up.
  2. (transitive) To crumple or messily fold (something).
  3. (broadly, figuratively, intransitive) To collapse; to give up and fold in a stressful situation.

crumple up meaning in Sanskrit

crumple up in Sanskrit

to crumple up, crush, destroy
संवर्तयति saṃvartayati

Forms of crumple up

third-person singular presentcrumples up
present participlecrumpling up
past participlecrumpled up
pastcrumpled up

Questions about crumple up

What does crumple up mean?
Crumple up means to become crumpled or messily folded up.
What is crumple up in Sanskrit?
Crumple up in Sanskrit is संवर्तयति (saṃvartayati). See Crumple up meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is crumple up?
Crumple up is a verb.
What is the past tense of crumple up?
The past tense of crumple up is crumpled up.

Words near crumple up in the dictionary

  1. crumpets
  2. crumpiness
  3. crumping
  4. crumplable
  5. crumple
  6. crumple up
  7. crumple zone
  8. crumple zones
  9. crumpled
  10. crumpled up
  11. crumpledness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crumple up (page history and authors); संवर्तयति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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