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rumplerum‧ple /ˈrʌmpəl/ verb [transitive] rumpleOrigin: 1500-1600 Dutch rompelen VERB TABLErumple |
Present | I, you, we, they | rumple | | he, she, it | rumples | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | rumpled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have rumpled | | he, she, it | has rumpled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had rumpled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will rumple | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have rumpled |
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Present | I | am rumpling | | he, she, it | is rumpling | | you, we, they | are rumpling | Past | I, he, she, it | was rumpling | | you, we, they | were rumpling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been rumpling | | he, she, it | has been rumpling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been rumpling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be rumpling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been rumpling |
- A rumpled bed is wedged behind the seats.
- And he liked her like this, when she was rumpled with sleep and undefended by make-up.
- He wore an expensive-looking dark suit, but so creased and rumpled that it hung oddly even from this distance.
- My inappropriate clothes, my rumpled yen, even the wobbly fusuma all seemed to signal how out of place I was.
- She felt a fool, lying on the floor with her skirt rumpled over her knees.
- The white sheet was rumpled from her restless tossing, her book flung to the floor.
- Unlike the rest of us, he was not wearing a rumpled flight suit.
person/clothes/hair► untidy British /messy American someone who is untidy does not keep their clothes, hair etc neatly arranged: · The little children were dirty and untidy, but very happy.· Her hair was messy and her lipstick was smudged.· He was comically tall and thin with a long growth of untidy beard. ► be a mess also look a mess British informal to look very untidy: · I can't go out looking like this - I'm a mess.· When the police called, I had just got up, and my hair looked a mess. ► scruffy British someone who is scruffy is wearing old, untidy clothes: · My parents think I look scruffy in these jeans, but I like them.scruffy clothes/jeans/sweater etc: · She's wearing that scruffy old sweater again. ► slovenly extremely untidy and careless, and often dirty: · Their landlady was fat and slovenly.· The aide was hired to keep the governor's slovenly brother out of the public eye. ► slob informal someone who is extremely untidy but does not seem to care that they are: · Jo's such a slob - how can you live like that?· If you keep dressing like a slob, no one's ever going to ask you for a date. ► unkempt especially written someone whose clothes or hair are unkempt , has made no effort to try to look clean or tidy: · Hoskins beard was tangled and unkempt.· She used to dress so neatly, but now her hair and clothes had become unkempt and dirty. ► dishevelled British /disheveled American someone who is dishevelled has untidy hair and clothes, often because they have been in a hurry, or have been travelling or working hard: · He looked dusty, disheveled, and very tired.· The actress was found disheveled and confused in a Los Angeles back yard.· She was conscious of her rather dishevelled appearance. ► bedraggled someone who is bedraggled looks untidy, especially because they are wet or muddy: · A rather bedraggled crowd waited outside in the pouring rain.· The children walked along the path, looking miserable and bedraggled after the storm. ► rumpled if clothes are rumpled , they have lots of creases in them and they look untidy. (Creases are lines where something has been folded.): · Forman was wearing a rumpled sweatsuit and a three-day beard.· Her dress was as rumpled as if she'd slept in it. to make hair, clothes etc less tidy: He rumpled her hair playfully.—rumpled adjective: the slightly rumpled bed a rumpled linen suit |