crumple

Other forms of crumple

past tense

crumpled·

present participle

crumpling·

third person

crumples·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crumple

What does crumple mean?

crumple means "fall apart". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crumple?

crumple has 2 syllables: crum-ple. The stress falls on "crum". In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌmpəl/.

What is another word for crumple?

Close synonyms include crumble, tumble, break down, collapse, buckle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crumple a common word?

crumple is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.