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Definition of rumpling : of Rumple

Synonyms:

disorganizing, convulsing, discomposing, disarranging, tampering, mixing up, scattering, deranging, hashing, displacing, jumbling, swirling, whisking, tossing, roughening, dislocating, messing, confusing, troubling, rippling, disturbing, roiling, churning, ruffling, misplacing, meddling, disheveling, botching, capsizing, mislaying, confounding, agitating, tumbling, cluttering, upsetting, scrambling, rummaging, perturbing, fermenting, mussing, whipping, disordering, tousling, blurring, muddling

gnarling, coarsening, scuffing, scratching

Usage examples:

• He cleared his throat again and averted his eyes, rumpling the paper as he turned a leaf. - "Jewel A Chapter In Her Life", Clara Louise Burnham.
• For, sure enough, fortune was good to her; there were two little bear cubs, round and fat and playful, rumpling each other where they rolled in the sunlight in a small grassy open space. - "The Short Cut", Jackson Gregory.
• Mrs. Bindle's head, however, was enveloped in the folds of her skirt, which she was endeavouring to assume without rumpling her hair. - "Adventures of Bindle", Herbert George Jenkins.