(v. t.) To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
(v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synapses or other sites that might be responsible for exciting these muscles during crumpling have not been found.
(2) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(3) A sixth conducting pathway is the epithelial system, which mediates crumpling, a response involving the radial muscles without pacemaker intervention.
(4) The BBC had a great subject: working-class, postwar Britain was being revealed.” Frears, a great crumpled bear of a man whom I met at his regular cafe in Notting Hill, said: “I tell you what: it’s really the growth of management you should be writing about.
(5) Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) was described by Beals and Hecht as an autosomal dominant disorder distinct from Marfan syndrome and comprising joint contractures, arachnodactyly, scoliosis, and a distinct "crumpled ear" deformity.
(6) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
(7) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
(8) It is the details of Martin's story that catch in the throat: his anxiety about his mother's wellbeing; his conviction that if he had been more helpful she would have wanted him to stay; his gentle care for the neighbourhood cats; the crumpled piece of bread he carries in his pocket for comfort.
(9) Louis van Gaal described it as “one of our best matches this season” and, even if he was exaggerating at times, talking about their opening 35 minutes being “unbelievably good,” it says a lot about Leicester that they refused to crumple.
(10) pedicaled subcutis muscle flaps, free tissue flaps or bone chips) we see no crumpling up of the obliterated areas and no retractions.
(11) Dressed in black Armani and heels, she walked the corridors, perching on desks reminding the crumpled agents that they were not only talented but handsome.
(12) We describe a male neonate with severe arachnodactyly, hypermobility of the fingers, flexion contractures of elbows, wrists, hips, and knees, micrognathia, crumpled ears, rockerbottom feet, loose redundant skin, and ocular abnormalities.
(13) The hands and feet appeared to be swollen and crumpled.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
(15) He began to make still-life photographs of his own discarded clothes, battered and crumpled and suggestively sexual, as if they still held the scent and warmth of the person who had worn them.
(16) The manner in which they had crumpled was almost shocking to see.
(17) The new houses paid for by the casino revenues, clustered together in their own neighbourhoods, stand out from the crumpled homes that have endured decades of desert winds.
(18) It is argued that these swollen and crumpled fiber knots are slowly degenerating fibers.
(19) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(20) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."
Crush
Definition:
(v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
(v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
(v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
(v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
(v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
(n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(2) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(3) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(4) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(5) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
(6) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
(7) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(8) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
(9) In one group of rats, the RGC proteins were labeled 1 week after crushing.
(10) In adrenergic axons NA, DBH-IR and TH-IR accumulated with time after crushing the nerve as described earlier with biochemical techniques.
(11) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(13) Labeled axons were first detected in the segment of optic nerve lying distal to the crush site 1 week after injury and had extended as far as 2.3 mm beyond the crush site by 60 days postinjury, growing at a rate similar to that at which the collateral branches of developing ganglion cell axons extend into their targets.
(14) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(15) Freeze-dried crushed cortical bone allografts were implanted into widemouthed three-wall, two-wall, one-wall, combination, and furcation defects.
(16) Previous work from our laboratory had shown that goldfish retinal fragments explanted onto a polylysine substratum 1 to 2 weeks following optic nerve crush exhibit a striking clockwise pattern of neuritic outgrowth.
(17) Thus did Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove , deliver to his prime minister what is, in certain Tory circles, the most crushing of insults.
(18) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(19) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(20) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.