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Spell Bee Word: Crumple


What does crumple mean?

Word: Crumple

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Crumple means to crush paper or cloth so that it becomes a messy shape full of folds. A face crumples when someone is about to cry.

Synonyms: crush, scrunch

Antonyms: smooth, flatten

How do you spell crumple?

Syllables: crum - ple

Tricky part: After crum comes ple, with the l before the e. Children often write crumpel or crumpul.

Watch out for: crumpel, crumpul, krumple

Memory tip: Apple and people end with p, l, e, and so does crumple: the l always comes before the e.

Crumple in a sentence

Example 1: Oscar crumpled the wrong drawing and threw it in the bin.

Example 2: Do not crumple your uniform in your bag.

Example 3: The little girl's face crumpled when her balloon burst.

Fun Fact

Crumple and crumble differ by one letter, p or b. You crumple a sheet of paper, but a dry biscuit crumbles into crumbs.

Practise the CREST Way

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

lpmceru 1234567

a) 6473215
b) 4673215
c) 4673251
d) 4637215

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b) 4673215. Read the letters in the order 4, 6, 7, 3, 2, 1, 5 and you get crumple.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

cr__mple

a) u
b) o
c) a
d) oo

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a) u. The short u of drum sits just after the cr.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

crumple

a) clue
b) plum
c) lump
d) purple

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d) purple. Purple needs two p's, and crumple has only one.

Spell Spies

Choose the pair which has a spelling error:

a) wrinkle : wrinkled
b) giggle : gigled
c) tumble : tumbled
d) crumple : crumpled

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b) giggle : gigled. Giggle keeps its double g when it becomes giggled.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these can you crumple easily?

a) a brick
b) a tissue
c) a steel rod
d) a glass jar

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b) a tissue

2. After you crumple a sheet of paper, it is ____.

a) perfectly flat
b) cut into strips
c) neatly rolled
d) bumpy and lined

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d) bumpy and lined

Associated Words

Words that end in -ple: staple, triple, grapple

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: smooth

More words from this list

essence, heap, meek, pyramid, staple, tournament, xylophone, calcium

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