7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
verb fall apart
verb fold or collapse
verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
originFrom Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.
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