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crumpling

crumpling noun: the act by which something crumples. Also the present participle and gerund of crumple.

Noun

crumpling (plural crumplings)

  1. The act by which something crumples.
    • Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
  2. A crumpled shape or structure.
    • When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]1905, James Geikie, Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science

Also used as

crumpling is also the present participle and gerund of crumple.

Forms of crumpling

pluralcrumplings

Phrases with crumpling

Questions about crumpling

What does crumpling mean?
Crumpling means the act by which something crumples.
What part of speech is crumpling?
Crumpling is a noun.
What is the plural of crumpling?
The plural of crumpling is crumplings.

Words near crumpling in the dictionary

  1. crumplers
  2. crumples
  3. crumples up
  4. crumplier
  5. crumpliest
  6. crumpling
  7. crumpling up
  8. crumplings
  9. crumply
  10. crumps
  11. Crumpsall

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