rumple
/ˈɹʌmpəl/
rumple verb: to make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
Verb
rumple (third-person singular simple present rumples, present participle rumpling, simple past and past participle rumpled)
- To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
- I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
- They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
- To muss; to tousle.
Noun
rumple (plural rumples)
- A wrinkle.
Proper noun capitalized: Rumple
Rumple (plural Rumples)
- A surname.
rumple meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
rumple in Urdu
- شکن
rumple in Malayalam
- crease, crumple, wrinkle
- ചുളിക്കുക, ഞൊറിവുണ്ടാക്കുക, ചുളുക്കുക, ചുളിവുവരുത്തുക, ഞൊറിവീഴ്ത്തുക, കശക്കി ഞെരുക്കി രൂപം മാറ്റുക
- disarrange, ruffle, tousle
- അലങ്കോലപ്പെടുത്തുക, താറുമാറാക്കുക, അടുക്കും മുറയും തെറ്റിക്കുക, ക്രമഭംഗം വരുത്തുക, ഉലച്ചിടുക, ചിക്കിച്ചിതറുക
rumple in Kannada
- ನಲುಗು, ಸುಕ್ಕು, ಮುದುರು, ಕೆದರು, ಮಡಿಕೆ ಬೀಳಿಸು, ಗೂರೆ ಮಾಡು
Examples of rumple in a sentence
- He’d been rockabyeing in a rockingchair, then on the bed, thickly rumpled.
- The Rolling Stones on the other hand, were rumpled roughnecks; the rock 'n' roll badboys.
- She was consider'ble rumpled and scratched up, but there was fire in her eye.
Forms of rumple
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | rumples |
| present participle | rumpling |
| past participle | rumpled |
| past | rumpled |
| Noun | |
| plural | rumples |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Rumples |
Origin of rumple
From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).
Words formed from rumple
- rumpler
- rumplesome
- rumple up
- rumply
- unrumple
Words that rhyme with rumple
Questions about rumple
- What does rumple mean?
- Rumple means to make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
- What is rumple in Urdu?
- Rumple in Urdu is شکن. See Rumple meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is rumple?
- Rumple can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce rumple?
- Rumple is pronounced /ˈɹʌmpəl/.
- What is the past tense of rumple?
- The past tense of rumple is rumpled.
Words near rumple in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rumple (page history and authors); Rumple (page history and authors); rumple (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rumple (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); rumple (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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