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scrumple

scrumple

English

Verb

scrumple (third-person singular simple present scrumples, present participle scrumpling, simple past and past participle scrumpled)

  1. (Britain) To crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).
    • "The Man Who Never Was" by Ewen Montagu, published by J. B. Lippincott Company 1954 Page 87
      "...once a piece of paper has been scrumpled no amount of flattening will erase the fact that it has been treated that way"
    • 2011, Brian Clegg, Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
      Throw the first sheet unfolded. Throw the second scrumpled up into a ball. And throw the third after you have folded it into a paper airplane.

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