Crumple
verb
To press or crush into irregular folds or into a small space.
He crumpled the paper up into a ball.
Often appears as...
- crumple up paper
- crumple into a ball
verb
To collapse or give way suddenly, especially under pressure.
He just crumpled to the floor in pain.
Often appears as...
- crumple to the floor
- crumple under pressure
noun
A crease, wrinkle, or fold.
There was a crumple in the brand new shirt.
Often appears as...
- crumple in the shirt
- material crumple
verb
To press or crush into irregular folds or into a small space.
He crumpled the paper up into a ball.
Often appears as...
- crumple up paper
- crumple into a ball
verb
To collapse or give way suddenly, especially under pressure.
He just crumpled to the floor in pain.
Often appears as...
- crumple to the floor
- crumple under pressure
noun
A crease, wrinkle, or fold.
There was a crumple in the brand new shirt.
Often appears as...
- crumple in the shirt
- material crumple
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used to describe the act of crushing something into smaller, wrinkled shape with hands.
I watched him crumple the note in frustration.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Destruction
Signifies actively ruining the original form of an object, often paper.
She crumpled the draft and tossed it into the bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Expression
Sometimes indicates a character's emotional state, such as anger or frustration.
In anger, he crumpled the photo into his pocket.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used to describe the act of crushing something into smaller, wrinkled shape with hands.
I watched him crumple the note in frustration.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Destruction
Signifies actively ruining the original form of an object, often paper.
She crumpled the draft and tossed it into the bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Expression
Sometimes indicates a character's emotional state, such as anger or frustration.
In anger, he crumpled the photo into his pocket.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used to describe the act of crushing something into smaller, wrinkled shape with hands.
I watched him crumple the note in frustration.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Destruction
Signifies actively ruining the original form of an object, often paper.
She crumpled the draft and tossed it into the bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Expression
Sometimes indicates a character's emotional state, such as anger or frustration.
In anger, he crumpled the photo into his pocket.
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Let's raise kids to be...
he wouldn't buy a newspaper from me ever but I was convinced I was going to him to buy a license plate protector and he's like well we don't need one I said but you've got two cars I'm nine years old like but you have two cars and they don't have license plate protectors and I said I know and I said and this car here's got one license plate that's all crumpled up and he said yes that's my
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Pizza physics (New...
It's really thin and bendable, so it's easy to roll into a cylinder. I don't need to stretch the sheet at all, just bend it. This property where one shape can be transformed into another without stretching or crumpling, is called isometry. A mathematician would say that a flat sheet is isometric to a cylinder. But not all shapes are isometric.
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Slowing down time (in...
crumple up like tin foil, I see the red paint flake off and drift off into the air, I can see all of that, like it's happening in slow motion. In my memory, that experience takes ten seconds. But why? Why did that memory play back longer than the actual time it took? This is an interesting phenomenon
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Is our universe the only...
theory says that on fantastically small scales there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them but even though the dimensions are hidden they would have an impact on things that we can observe because the shape of the extra
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Why is our universe...
But string theory says that, on fantastically small scales, there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them. But even though the dimensions are hidden, they would have an impact on things that we can observe
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Hand vs. Eye PIPE Brain...
kind of like a little bar bet crumple it into a bowl then would you hold out your hand flat above it your hand flat as flat as you can as fast as you can I want to see you grab that bill it's pretty quick so what if we escalated
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The Japanese folktale of...
He soon came to a cramped cottage, with a woman crumpled outside. Filled with pity, the scholar implored the woman to share her sorrow. She explained that her mother had just died— but no one would help her with the burial.
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How we teach computers...
technologies in computer science. Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over,
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Why is Mount Everest so...
bumped into the bigger Eurasian Plate, and the crust crumpled, creating huge uplift. Mountain Everest lies at the heart of this action, on the edge of the Indian-Eurasian collision zone.
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Knights of Malta Nectar...
raise a tankard of rum and victory I'm going along by these crumpled down ruins this is awesome hit right here I get my big shovel out dig a nice plug drop down
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Let's raise kids to be...
he wouldn't buy a newspaper from me ever but I was convinced I was going to him to buy a license plate protector and he's like well we don't need one I said but you've got two cars I'm nine years old like but you have two cars and they don't have license plate protectors and I said I know and I said and this car here's got one license plate that's all crumpled up and he said yes that's my
Video examples
Pizza physics (New...
It's really thin and bendable, so it's easy to roll into a cylinder. I don't need to stretch the sheet at all, just bend it. This property where one shape can be transformed into another without stretching or crumpling, is called isometry. A mathematician would say that a flat sheet is isometric to a cylinder. But not all shapes are isometric.
Video examples
Slowing down time (in...
crumple up like tin foil, I see the red paint flake off and drift off into the air, I can see all of that, like it's happening in slow motion. In my memory, that experience takes ten seconds. But why? Why did that memory play back longer than the actual time it took? This is an interesting phenomenon
Video examples
Is our universe the only...
theory says that on fantastically small scales there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them but even though the dimensions are hidden they would have an impact on things that we can observe because the shape of the extra
Video examples
Why is our universe...
But string theory says that, on fantastically small scales, there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them. But even though the dimensions are hidden, they would have an impact on things that we can observe
Video examples
Hand vs. Eye PIPE Brain...
kind of like a little bar bet crumple it into a bowl then would you hold out your hand flat above it your hand flat as flat as you can as fast as you can I want to see you grab that bill it's pretty quick so what if we escalated
Video examples
The Japanese folktale of...
He soon came to a cramped cottage, with a woman crumpled outside. Filled with pity, the scholar implored the woman to share her sorrow. She explained that her mother had just died— but no one would help her with the burial.
Video examples
How we teach computers...
technologies in computer science. Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over,
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Why is Mount Everest so...
bumped into the bigger Eurasian Plate, and the crust crumpled, creating huge uplift. Mountain Everest lies at the heart of this action, on the edge of the Indian-Eurasian collision zone.
Video examples
Knights of Malta Nectar...
raise a tankard of rum and victory I'm going along by these crumpled down ruins this is awesome hit right here I get my big shovel out dig a nice plug drop down
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Rachel Platten
American Musician
I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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Algernon Blackwood
English Writer
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
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Fei-Fei Li
Chinese Scientist
Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.
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Taylor Lautner
American Actor
In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.
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Laurel Clark
American Astronaut
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.
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Tiffany Darwish
American Musician
I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.
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Ratan Tata
Indian Businessman
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
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Rachel Platten
American Musician
I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
Quote examples
J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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Algernon Blackwood
English Writer
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Quote examples
Rob Manuel
Businessman
Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
Quote examples
Fei-Fei Li
Chinese Scientist
Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.
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Taylor Lautner
American Actor
In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.
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Laurel Clark
American Astronaut
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.
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Tiffany Darwish
American Musician
I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.
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Ratan Tata
Indian Businessman
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
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