crumpling
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4VERB + CRUMPLING
playing, stopped
CRUMPLING + NOUN
bag, paper
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into
ADV.
such
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The act by which something crumples.
Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
A crumpled shape or structure.
When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
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6Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
WiktionaryWhen strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds —
WiktionaryPlaying, such as crumpling paper into a ball or tearing into pieces, helps develop children's creativity.
Tatoeba · #1265604Sami was crumpling the bag.
Tatoeba · #7147396Sami stopped crumpling the bag.
Tatoeba · #7147398Ziri stopped crumpling the bag.
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