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scrumpling

scrumpling is the present participle and gerund of scrumple.

Meaning of scrumple

Verb

scrumple (third-person singular simple present scrumples, present participle scrumpling, simple past and past participle scrumpled)

  1. (UK) To crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).
    • ...once a piece of paper has been scrumpled no amount of flattening will erase the fact that it has been treated that way"The Man Who Never Was" by Ewen Montagu, published by J. B. Lippincott Company 1954 Page 87

Questions about scrumpling

What is scrumpling the present participle and gerund of?
Scrumpling is the present participle and gerund of scrumple.

Words near scrumpling in the dictionary

  1. scrumping up
  2. scrumple
  3. scrumpled
  4. scrumples
  5. scrumplicious
  6. scrumpling
  7. scrumpox
  8. scrumps
  9. scrumps up
  10. scrumptilicious
  11. scrumptious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrumpling (page history and authors); scrumple (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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