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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RUM'PLE, v.t.
To wrinkle; to make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; as, to rumple and apron or a cravat.
RUM'PLE, n. A fold or plait.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water" [syn: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up]
2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit]
3: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: circa 1520 fold, wrinkle II. verb (rumpled; rumpling) Etymology: Dutch rompelen; akin to Old High German rimpfan to wrinkle Date: 1603 transitive verb 1. wrinkle, crumple 2. to make unkempt ; tousle intransitive verb to become rumpled

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. make or become creased or ruffled. Derivatives: rumply adj. Etymology: obs. rumple (n.) f. MDu. rompel f. rompe wrinkle

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rumple Rum"ple, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Rumpling.] [Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, G. r["u]mpfen to wrinkle, MHG. r["u]mphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, ? to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. --Burke.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rumple Rum"ple, n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rumples, rumpling, rumpled) If you rumple someone's hair, you move your hand backwards and forwards through it as your way of showing affection to them. I leaned forward to rumple his hair, but he jerked out of the way. = ruffle VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Wrinkle, crumple, crease, crush, pucker, corrugate. II. n. Wrinkle, crumple, pucker, rimple, crease, corrugation, fold.

Moby Thesaurus

agitate, beat, beat up, bristle, churn, churn up, clutter, cocker, cockle, convulse, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, crush, derange, disarrange, disarray, discompose, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disquiet, disturb, excite, ferment, flurry, fold, fret, furrow, knit, knot, litter, mess, mess up, misarrange, muss, muss up, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pucker, purse, ridge, rile, rimple, ripple, rivel, roil, roughen, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, scatter, screw, scrunch, set on edge, shake, shake up, shirr, stir, stir up, swirl, tousle, trouble, upset, whip, whip up, whisk, wimple, work up, wrinkle