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Crumple vs Scrumple - What's the difference?

crumple | scrumple |

As verbs the difference between crumple and scrumple

is that crumple is to rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together while scrumple is to crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).

As a noun crumple

is a crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.

crumple

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
  • Verb

    (crumpl)
  • To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
  • To cause to collapse.
  • To become wrinkled.
  • To collapse.
  • Derived terms

    * crumple zone

    scrumple

    English

    Verb

    (scrumpl)
  • (British) 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"
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