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crumpling

verb , present participle of crumple

Synonyms and Antonyms of crumpling

1 to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in

crumpled the piece of paper and angrily threw it in the wastebasket

Synonyms of crumpling

crinkling, rumpling, scrunching, wrinkling

Words Related to crumpling

corrugating, creasing, crimping, folding, pleating, puckering, rucking

crisping, rippling, ruffling

contracting, furrowing, knitting

messing (up), mussing (up)

Near Antonyms of crumpling

evening, ironing, pressing, straightening

neatening, tidying

Antonyms of crumpling

flattening, ironing out, smoothening, smoothing, uncrumpling

2 to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure

the box crumpled when I accidentally dropped a brick on it

Synonyms of crumpling

buckling, caving (in), collapsing, foundering, giving, going, going out, imploding, tumbling, yielding

Words Related to crumpling

deflating, flattening, melting, melting down

breaking, breaking down, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, giving out, stalling

bursting, shattering, smashing, splintering, splitting

cracking, crumbling, popping, snapping

Phrases Synonymous with crumpling

Near Antonyms of crumpling

inflating, rising, swelling

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