verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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I must have made a strange sight, crumpled up on the floor trying to read that opening paragraph.
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He crumpled up some paper in his fist and handed it to me quickly and got back into his chair.
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Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it.
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And looking like a big tin can, about to be crumpled up .
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She thought about the one with the smashed head crumpling up .
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He crumpled up the burrito wrapper and bounced it off the rim of the trash can.
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Then he looked in the car, saw my father crumpled up and started to speak.
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I spent a couple of hours crumpling up sheets of paper and trying to throw them past Raffles.
■ NOUN
face
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She apparently thought better of it, but her face started to crumple as if she was going to cry.
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Betsy's face crumpled a bit, and Jimmy put an arm around her shoulders and gave her a squeeze.
floor
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The phone, her desk, the crumpled shape on the floor that was her jeans, everything looked different.
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Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.
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I must have made a strange sight, crumpled up on the floor trying to read that opening paragraph.
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She looked down at her gown, crumpled on the floor where she had flung it.
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Her little summer dress and leather jacket crumpled up on the floor where she had left them when she was happy.
paper
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Lissa crumpled the paper into her clammy palm.
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He reached in and pulled out some crumpled pieces of paper .
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You crumple the paper and begin daydreaming to ease the frustration.
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He crumpled up some paper in his fist and handed it to me quickly and got back into his chair.
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The crumpled paper turned out to be more funnies that he had painstakingly cut out.
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Zung accessorized his models with crumpled paper bag hats trimmed in a band of lambskin.
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He pinched some out and cleaned it on a crumpled paper bag, not knowing what to say.
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I finished one bagel and crumpled the paper it had come wrapped in.
■ VERB
start
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As he starts to crumple at my feet, I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the bullet tore through his leg, he crumpled to the ground.
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He crumpled his shirt into a ball and threw it into the laundry basket.
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The whole front of the car crumpled upon impact with the wall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He crumpled to the ice with a shattered fourth cervical vertebra, his body paralyzed from the neck down.
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Mitchell crumpled both and pitched them into the wastebasket.
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The rickety wood splintered under the impact and Jack crumpled, blood welling from a gash on his forehead.