crumple

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CRUMPLE, verb intransitive [from crump. See Rumple, the same word without a prefix.] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to rumple. CRUMPLE, verb intransitive To contract; to shrink.
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