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crumple

verb as in make or become wrinkled

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Close, her face flushed with anger, crumpled the paper featuring the box score in front of her and slammed her fist in frustration.

The security video shows the truck driver pull over, get out of his vehicle and approach the victim, who is lying crumpled and face down in the street.

For USC, and its tentative tournament hopes, there were few more troubling sights than this one: their leading scorer and floor general crumpled in a heap on the baseline, clutching a knee.

"I took the crumpled sheets, smoothed them out, read the crazy leaping lines, smiled to myself at the leaps that never landed and then put the sheets into a file folder," he added.

From BBC

She’s dressed for a photo shoot in a neat black suit, a juxtaposition to Leigh’s crumpled fleece vest that only makes their dynamic that much more entertaining.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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