crumple
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
fall apart
the building crumbled after the explosion
Types & categories
- change integrity hypernym
Sense 2 verb
fold or collapse
His knees buckled
Types & categories
- collapse hypernym
Sense 3 verb
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
She puckered her lips
Types & categories
- crease hypernym
Related & opposite
- draw verb group
Sense 4 verb
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
This fabric won't wrinkle
Types & categories
- fold up hypernym
Related & opposite
- wrinkle derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change integrity |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | collapse |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | draw |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | crease |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | wrinkle |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | fold up |