CRUMPLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crumpled mean? 

• CRUMPLED (adjective)
  The adjective CRUMPLED has 1 sense:

1. of metal e.g.

  Familiarity information: CRUMPLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUMPLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of metal e.g.

Synonyms:

bent; crumpled; dented

Context example:

dented fenders

Similar:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

 Context examples 

The first struck fifty feet to windward of the boat, the second alongside; and at the third the boat-steerer let loose his steering-oar and crumpled up in the bottom of the boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Thus he thought, and crumpled up and sank down upon the wet earth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He held up a little crumpled piece of paper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"See that," Joe said, holding up a filmy corset-cover that he could have crumpled from view in one hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The man struck the shrewd blow he had purposely withheld for so long, and Buck crumpled up and went down, knocked utterly senseless.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I can hold them crumpled up in my hand, so no one will know how stained they are.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Poole felt in his pocket and handed out a crumpled note, which the lawyer, bending nearer to the candle, carefully examined.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There! you will find it scarcely more legible than a crumpled, scratched page.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)