(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."
Shrink
Definition:
(v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
(v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
(v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
(v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.
(n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(2) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
(3) The resulting free anterior tarsal surface must be covered by a free graft to prevent tarsal shrinking.
(4) Sales are also shrinking in north America and Europe.
(5) Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump Read more There’s the shrinking minority of Americans who believe he’s doing a good job.
(6) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
(7) This increase was due to a larger radiation dose to the anoxic tumor core and to external irradiation shrinking the tumor to within the high-dose range of radium therapy.
(8) To make the equations of physics carry on working, Einstein showed that the length of any moving object must shrink in the direction of its travel.
(9) VS K influx into high K cells was transient, whereas influx into low K cells (prepared with nystatin), which are unable to shrink via K efflux, remained fully activated.
(10) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more Some have arrived in government-held or Kurdish-controlled territory with overstuffed suitcases and bags of their possessions, but others have come empty-handed, with only the clothes on their backs.
(11) According his hypothesis "the nerves were shrinking because of drying" and the treatment had to be long, prolonged bathing.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(13) Unemployment in Spain's shrinking economy now exceeds 4 million people, or almost 19% of the population, and has pushed the bank's bad loan ratio in its home market up to 3.4%.
(14) Ranch and management x ranch effects accounted for more of the variation in shrink than PC did.
(15) The Blairite rump wants more austerity and markets in public services, while their champion, Douglas Alexander, wants to "shrink" Labour's offer so the Tories and media have as little as possible to attack.
(16) The reality is they seem to be in denial that the Welsh budget is shrinking yet they seem to be calling for more money to be spent in practically every area.
(17) Should they shrink from it, the Lib Dems will reveal that they are neither liberal nor democratic.
(18) At the same time, the diameter of the hair cell top decreased by shrinking.
(19) Corticosteroid therapy for acute "shrinking lungs syndrome" in active SLE can improve symptoms and pulmonary function.
(20) The report does not discuss the reasons why young black people make up an ever greater proportion of the shrinking youth jail population.