rumple up
B2 neutral separable transitive
In simple words
to make something look messy and full of wrinkles
Meanings
1 B2 neutral
to make cloth, paper, or hair wrinkled and untidy
"The children rumpled up the bed before breakfast."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Usually used for clothes, bedding, paper, or hair. More descriptive than strongly idiomatic.
Commonly used with
clothes sheet paper hair jacket bed
Forms
Base
rumple up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
rumples up
he/she/it
Past simple
rumpled up
yesterday
Past participle
rumpled up
have + pp
-ing form
rumpling up
continuous
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