MEANING
To crush or collapse into irregular folds.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- crumple paper
- crumple to the ground
On the page
The letter crumpled in her hand.
Word forms
- Base
- crumple
- Past tense
- crumpled
- Past participle
- crumpled
- Present participle
- crumpling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- crumple
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crumpling
- Present perfect
- have/has crumpled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crumpling
- Past
- crumpled
- Past continuous
- was/were crumpling
- Past perfect
- had crumpled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crumpling
- Future
- will crumple
- Future continuous
- will be crumpling
- Future perfect
- will have crumpled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crumpling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: crumple; crumples; crumpled; crumpled; crumpling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: crumples.
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