Rumpled - English meaning

noun

A line or ridge produced on paper or cloth by folding, pressing, or crushing.

Usage examples:

Khaki trousers with knife-edge creases

verb

Any of a number of lines marked on the pitch at specified places.

noun

A line or mark made on material by folding or pressing it, or a line in a person’s skin, esp. in the face

Usage examples:

There were tiny creases in her eye shadow., [ t ] a frown creased mr. cuna’s boyish face.

verb

Form into small surface creases or wrinkles.

Usage examples:

Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment

noun

A wrinkle or crease on the surface of something.

Usage examples:

There was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead

verb

To have or cause to have many little lines and folds

Usage examples:

[ i ] the paper was old and crinkled., the machine won’t take your bills unless you smooth out the …

verb

Compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape.

Usage examples:

The front of his car was crushed in the collision

noun

A crowd of people pressed closely together.

Usage examples:

A number of youngsters fainted in the crush

verb

To press something very hard so that it is broken or its shape is destroyed

Usage examples:

The package got crushed in the mail., her car was crushed by a falling tree., i was crushed because…

verb

Make untidy or disordered.

Usage examples:

Had any of the statues been removed or disarranged?

verb

To make something untidy

verb

Make (a person's hair or clothes) untidy.

Usage examples:

He ran one hand through his hair, further dishevelling it

noun

A state of confusion.

Usage examples:

The world 's currency markets were in disorder

verb

Disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of.

Usage examples:

They are disordering the political landscape

noun

A state in which objects or conditions are in no particular order; lack of system or planned organization

Usage examples:

The room was in such disorder that she couldn’t find anything., [ c ] a mental/physical disorder, […

verb

Make (someone's hair or clothes) untidy or messy.

Usage examples:

The wind was mussing up his hair

noun

A state of disorder.

Usage examples:

No fuss, no muss—nothing left behind except a few little specks of dust

verb

To make messy

Usage examples:

Don’t muss my hair (up) – i just had it styled.

verb

Turn over something, especially the pages of a book, quickly and casually.

Usage examples:

He riffled through the pages

noun

An act or sound of riffling through something.

Usage examples:

Just a riffle through the books

noun

A loose scrum formed around a player with the ball on the ground.

Usage examples:

Players will be encouraged to go to the ground when tackled to form a ruck

verb

Take part in a ruck.

Usage examples:

Too often the pack failed to ruck as a unit

noun

A crease or wrinkle.

verb

Another term for ruck2.

Usage examples:

In the hall, the rugs were ruckled up as if someone had been in a hurry to get out

verb

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.

Usage examples:

The father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair

noun

A strip of lace or other material, gathered along one edge to make an ornamental frill on a garment or other piece of fabric.

Usage examples:

The garment is often trimmed with lace, ruffles, bows and ribbons, optionally with spaghetti straps.

verb

To make someone upset or nervous or reduce someone’s confidence

Usage examples:

[ t ] it ruffled her composure, and she did not know how to respond., a sudden, strong breeze ruffl…

verb

Make (a person's hair) untidy.

Usage examples:

I tousled his wispy silver hair

verb

To make someone's hair untidy, for example by rubbing it, or, of the wind, by blowing it

Usage examples:

She tousled her niece's hair, and went out., the wind tousled their hair.

verb

Fall suddenly, clumsily, or headlong.

Usage examples:

She pitched forward, tumbling down the remaining stairs

noun

A sudden or headlong fall.

Usage examples:

I took a tumble in the nettles

verb

Fall down, as if collapsing

noun

A slight line or fold in something, especially fabric or the skin of the face.

Usage examples:

She smoothed out the wrinkles from her skirt

verb

Make or cause lines or folds in (something, especially fabric or the skin).

Usage examples:

His hands and face were wrinkled by age

noun

A small line in the skin, or a small fold in cloth

Usage examples:

You need to iron out the wrinkles in your skirt., fig. we still need to iron out a few wrinkles (= …