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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
rumpled
    adj 1: in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was
           disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled
           unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair
           was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers [syn:
           disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled,
           tousled]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rumple \Rum"ple\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rumpled p. pr. &
   vb. n. Rumpling.] [Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle,
   rompelig rough, uneven, G. r["u]mpfen to wrinkle, MHG.
   r["u]mphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of
   birds of prey, ? to roam.]
   To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to
   wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
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         They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled
         and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest
         assignats.                               --Burke.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rumpled \Rum"pled\, a.
   Wrinkled; crumpled. --Pope.
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Thesaurus Results for rumpled:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cockled, cockly, corrugate, corrugated, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled, disheveled, furrowed, knitted, knotted, matted, messed up, mussed up, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, ridged, rimpled, rippled, rucked, ruffled, rugged, rugose, rugous, shaggy, snaggy, snarled, tousled, tously, tumbled, uncombed, wrinkled, wrinkly
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