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"crumple" Definitions
  1. [transitive, intransitive] crumple (something) (up) (into something) to press or crush something into folds; to become pressed, etc. into folds
  2. [intransitive] crumple (up) if your face crumples, you look sad and disappointed, as if you might cry
  3. [intransitive] crumple (up) to suddenly fall down with no control of your body because you are injured, unconscious, drunk, etc. synonym collapse
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The less fortunate huddle under tarps that crumple during rainstorms.
He hopped on, her back didn't crumple, and love ensued.
See it for what it is, crumple it, start over.
There's no face in front of you that's going to crumple.
We have already added seat belts and crumple zones to cars.
Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
Crumple up paper and let Bella bat it around the floor.
The probe also has a crumple zone to help cushion the landing.
I crumple to the floor and convulse, my jaw clenched, limbs flailing.
Take a sheet of paper, any shape or size, and crumple it.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas can do backflips because it doesn't crumple when it lands.
And, from a safety standpoint, the structure also makes for larger crumple zones.
There are no irons in the rooms, so try to arrive crumple-free.
For Rachel Rothwell, it can literally cause her to crumple to the floor.
Later, I kicked my dad the same way, but he did not crumple.
The boy saw Jefferson, 280, his "Auntie Tay," crumple to the floor and die.
Crumple up the edges and glue several layers together with a glue stick. 6.
She made sculptures by hanging sheets of lead and letting them crumple and ripple.
He had seen his beloved son, a determined fighter, crumple to the blue mat.
Most people know about crumple zones in the front and rear of the vehicle.
Now, crumple and unfold your piece of paper again: • What do you notice now?
Crumple the papers and stuff them under clothes to keep warm, de Vulpillieres said.
You, a mere mortal, would likely would crumple under the weight of these twin loyalties.
What it was, at the end, to crumple naked into a cold wall and scream.
A large crumple zone isn't the only special feature that makes the Model 23 safe.
He had not yet rolled out his exclamation point only to crumple like a comma.
For physicists who study the dynamics of how things crumple, paper makes an ideal model.
He stands in front of a mirror, black-suited, and his features crumple and crack.
When they are moving, they slump, sink, loll, crumple softly and maybe thrash a little.
That bumper is a metal crumple zone designed to absorb the impact of an errant car.
An adorable, naive, hapless island, with a vocal inflection that could literally crumple an adult's defenses.
One of the most effective activities was asking each student to crumple a piece of paper.
The new car didn't crumple on a driver in an accident like the old chassis did.
For instance, without a motor in the hood, there's more room for a forward crumple zone.
Because I have 40-inch legs, and they need to un-crumple before I get arthritis.
A startup called Eurekite has created a new kind of ceramic that's able to fold and crumple.
Scooters don't have crumple zones, air bags, or padding, so riders are exposed to everything around them.
For example, do you think you could predict where and how any piece of paper would crumple?
Under proposed crash rules, the FRA would allow cars to comply if they employ crumple-zone technology.
Even the smell of sandalwood made me want to crumple into a ball of hurt and pain.
Crumple zones were invented in the 50s, but are increasingly a standard safety feature on cars made today.
Sometimes I'm feeling healthy and I'll take a salad and crumple up a couple of Cheetos on there.
If another financial crisis were to hit, as at some point it surely will, the currency could crumple.
Similarly, if you ever need assistance in a New York City subway station, simply crumple to the ground.
ESA says the impact will be cushioned by a structure similar to a crumple zone in a car.
There's no need to squeeze and crumple all my Nutri-Grain bars, dump my wigs out my bag.
Before you crumple this paper into a ball, or click away, I admit that my antipathy is irrational.
At each state of crumple, the intricate crease patterns, and the events that led to them, are irrelevant.
So Graham's skull is extra large and helmet-like with built in "crumple-zones," according to the project website.
They roll the samples up onto dowels, or crumple them up, or fasten them to each other in layers.
If the hole is larger than your pinkie finger, crumple up some newspaper and pack it into the hole.
"We talk about them being 'sacrificial sands,'" she said, a kind of environmental crumple zone to blunt storm damage.
To protect them, automakers have added high-tech airbags, crush-resistant roofs, crumple zones and electronic stability control systems.
After the visit, I crumple up on a couch on a hall, where Larry, the activities guy, spots me.
She saw it crumple, sending up a giant cloud of dust and emitting a roar as the concrete split.
Yet despite their size, they're plush and capable of softness as they crumple to the floor and rise up.
In one lovely scene, the children crumple up paper to create a flock of birds that fly and swoop.
They lack the seat belts and airbags and crumple zones that have made cars so much safer in recent decades.
"I was able live again and not just feel like I wanted to crumple up in a ball," Weaver said.
All of this is the stuff of nightmares, the kind that make you crumple into a ball beneath the covers.
It is somewhere between juice and tea, made of dried hibiscus steeped in boiling water, with a crumple of mint.
Gravity isn't pulling them down into their normal position anymore, so the lower part of your lungs will crumple up.
In crashes, these "crumple zones" dissipate the energy of a crash instead of passing it on to the passengers inside.
Cars get a little safer every year, but incremental improvements to things like airbags and crumple zones are easy to overlook.
Malin Ekholm, the vice president of the Volvo Cars Safety Center, points out that its vehicles' seats have vertical crumple zones.
This gives the car what is essentially its own crumple-zone around the battery, protecting it in the event of a crash.
The European Space Agency, or ESA, says a crumple zone similar to those in cars was designed to help cushion the landing.
But say you want something that conforms to more complex shapes, like a tablet you can crumple like a piece of paper.
Things get even worse at the end of the trip when I apply the chaos-inducing crumple-and-stuff method of packing.
But when I see that caricature of who I'm expected to be, I crumple, sinking into a wave of depression and alienation.
Lila's soft white face began to crumple, and from its open center came a high wail as the contraption shook her body.
Marshawn Lynch is going TANK MODE for his new reality show ... strappin' into an army-grade Abrams to crumple cars for fun.
At this moment in the evolution of the auto industry, there were still no seat belts, airbags, emission controls, or mandatory crumple zones.
Before the treatments, guests write what they want to release on pieces of paper — and then crumple it up and light it on fire.
But it's never that simple for a Cancer, and they will fire back in anger or crumple under the insecurity that you don't care.
There are lacy-edged dosas and cakelike dosas, delicate dosas that crumple like hankies, and fat, deeply pocked dosas that break where they're creased.
She held her salute, but her face began to crumple in anxiety as she was lifted out of the crowd to meet the president.
But what you need to understand, if you're going to investigate why a horse could suddenly crumple to the ground, is the ground itself.
This is actually a feature, not a bug, as the large crumple zone absorbs more of the shock and is safer for the car's occupants.
The NHTSA also released this video of the Model X crash test, so we can watch the vehicle crumple like an accordion from multiple angles.
The sedan's front crumple zone is wrecked and glass is broken; the van is in better shape, though its front right tire is crushed in.
Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.
My husband, who saw me crumple up into myself on election night, doesn't understand my penchant for a series that portrays women as disposable accessories.
The doll's facial expressions are so real, so lifelike, that its lips curl and its cheeks crumple as though it were actually about to cry.
Footage on social media showed passengers screaming as the stairway appeared to crumple after racing down the Repubblica station in central Rome on Tuesday evening.
It was an early adopter of direct fuel injection, crumple zones, seatbelt pre-tensioners, traction control, massaging seats, radar-guided cruise control, LED lighting and more.
These joints allow the creatures' wings to stay stiff during flight, but "reversibly crumple" in the case of a crash — saving the thin membranes from tearing.
You pick a car, drive it into a wall, and your reward is getting to watch every ding, bump, crack and crumple appear in slow motion.
Watching Moore's face crumple into a teary mess the second she sees Jack's limp body in a hospital bed will make you cry, no questions asked.
Two decades after the death of Princess Diana, her loyal driver still recalls the moment that made him crumple with grief in her Paris hospital room.
The Tesla's front trunk area, which the automaker claims "acts as a giant impact-absorbing crumple zone," also helped to keep the damage to a minimum.
From one crumple to the next, he observed that a piece of paper never stopped forming new creases, although the rate of their formation slowed logarithmically.
At its most simplistic, I know that if I chuck an oil flask and then use a spell to set it on fire, enemies will crumple.
One SEAL sniper told investigators he heard a shot from Chief Gallagher's position, then saw a schoolgirl in a flower-print hijab crumple to the ground.
In the video, you can see the crumple zone in action as the front hood squishes to take the brunt of the force, protecting the people inside.
Something as simple as picking up a bottle of water is tough for a robot, especially if it isn't expecting the bottle to crumple under the force.
I looked up to see a blurry figure leap from the eighth floor of a nearby building and land in a crumple, 30 feet from my feet.
The arm bit of it looks good now, obviously, but with a decent enough attack to the joints of it, it would fold and crumple beneath me.
They were entrance-making, and at the same time looked so ephemeral it seemed as if you could crumple one up and hold it in one hand.
She worried that I would crumple in the face of everyday failures, that I would gradually deflate—a quiet, unremarkable hissing—into a case of unfulfilled potential.
I was a mega shy loner—I couldn't talk without going bright red and I would basically crumple inwards—so these songs were a refuge for me.
One thing the company is already working on adding is a "crumple zone" to help in a crash, like the front bumper area or trunk of a car.
So, next time you crumple up a candy wrapper and toss it on the ground, take a minute to watch it unfold, revealing the secrets of the universe.
The two-winged drones, which look like small planes, are built from materials that crumple upon impact to absorb energy so no one gets hurt on the ground.
I crumple them until they tangle and (inevitably) fray, and I remain blind to them until the moment they trip me or yank my devices off the table.
The analysis focused on so-called vertebral fractures, also known as compression fractures, that happen when bones in the spine weaken and crumple, often in the lower back.
Adjusting the thickness of the material gave interesting results: thicker walls burst suddenly under pressure, but thinner walls allowed the pores to crumple gradually, maintaining its shape longer.
We all fall over—it happens, our feet slip out from under us, we crumple, we fall—and we have all, at some point, fallen down some steps.
With each new crumple, the paper creased along some of its existing scars, but there always came a point when new creases were needed for crumpling to continue.
The piece has an oscillating logic unrelated to any typical song form; it finally climaxes in a rough crumple, before the playful melody leaps forth one final time.
In one of the two commercials that made Puzder's forehead crumple, Jack in the Box's smiling mascot was asked to point out a cow's "Angus area" on a diagram.
Imagine a convincing fake video or audio clip of Elon Musk, say, disclosing a massive defect the day before a big Tesla launch — the company's share price would crumple.
Unlike Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, Clinton won't crumple under Trump's politics of personal destruction since she's survived some of the the worst attacks any public figure has received.
Although we'll continue to find ourselves involved in collisions on the road, improvements to airbags, crumple zones, and such mean that we're more likely to be injured, not killed.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the seven-storey steel and concrete structure to crumple without warning before dawn, trapping construction workers who were sleeping on the site.
Often he would ask a new acquaintance to write questions on scraps of paper, crumple the scraps into balls, and then repeat each question as they unfolded the paper.
Automotive engineering experts say they're also worried about the lack of a visible "crumple zone," built to collapse and absorb the brunt of the force in a forward collision.
We took an expansive look at the disaster, reconstructing the mud's deadly journey and illustrating how these dams are built and what led the one in Brumadinho to crumple.
Now working on a larger-scale wooden shelf, Hermann offers an assortment of objects and textures — ball, cup, crumple, puddle — that, as usual, allow neither easy assimilation nor dismissal.
And then I shoot upright, scrabble for my phone, punch the home button to awaken the calming backlit glow—2:33 am, Sunday, January 8—and crumple into my pillow.
For a moment, the prosecution and defense pull together: Both are committed to the spectacular windmill-tilt of an attempt to avoid "tainting" the big, crumple-faced man's jury pool.
I would have called it the best acting moment of the "Girls" season, but Elijah's slow crumple as he realizes his not-quite-boyfriend Dill is rejecting him might best it.
It's tough to wrinkle (unless you crumple it up and leave it under a pile of other clothes), and low-maintenance (you can throw it in the machine to be washed).
Of note is the fact that both the Model S and Model X use aluminum in their bodies, and aluminum tends to crumple easier than metals like steel when in a collision.
As if to compensate for the director's reduced role, the job's physical difficulties were increasingly invoked: the director Cecil B. DeMille said women would "crumple from the strain" of 18-hour days.
The video shows Laquan, who had been running from the police and was veering slightly away from Officer Van Dyke, crumple to the ground and writhe as bullets continue to hit him.
That means that I can casually crumple them up into a ball, stuff them in a sweatshirt pocket or bag, and watch as they magically tumble out knot-free when I need them.
The colored blocks drain into empty outlines as units suffer casualties, and some units will simply crumple into a dusty outline on the battlefield to show where a unit finally broke and ran.
As I approached graduation, I watched news footage of crumple-faced families carrying boxes out of foreclosed houses, followed by shots of expensively dressed professionals walking to work at their bailed-out banks.
On May 9, 1917, he and a student, Cary P. Epes, were killed when the biplane they were flying seemed to crumple in midair over Newport News, Va., before plummeting to the ground.
Alba pressed a flower into Jane's tiny palm, instructed her to crumple it up, and told her that's what would happen to her (at least spiritually) if she had sex before getting married.
Besides the new airbag, Honda showed journalists its work on improving pedestrian safety and its use of crumple zones and other structural engineering tricks to divert crash energy away from the occupant cabin.
After the real gifts are opened and the young children are safely moved out of the way, we crumple up the paper and throw it at each other in our annual paper fight.
It turns out that wasps have a unique flexible joint in their wings that allows them to remain rigid during flight, but also crumple in the opposite direction in the event of a collision.
Strings and knots are already an important topic of mathematical study in a field called topology, the study of things that maintain certain properties even when you move them around or crumple them up.
This action is repeated in a series of late works on the gallery's second floor, in which fire is unleashed on gold and silver sheets of paper, which buckle and crumple under the assault.
At one point, I'd showed him a picture from the newspaper of the bad man (I'd gotten rid of all the other pictures), and he brought it into therapy to crumple up and destroy.
Seeing a man who was previously a violent, vengeful brute involuntary crumple into a messy heap of emotions is a downright uncomfortable sight, but somehow Bernthal manages to find the humanity in such a moment.
But rather than crumple in the face of a new blockade (which was imposed by Nepalese protesters but tacitly backed by India, which still controls nearly all road access), Nepal's wobbly government held its ground.
Now I know how Belize cheers for Simone Biles; what synchronized divers say to one another before the plunge; how easily table tennis balls crumple; how Brazil's judo champion, Rafaela Silva, emerged from Rio's favelas.
You never forget watching young people, some of the nation's best and brightest, full of passion and idealism, stand up to machine guns — and then in an instant crumple bloody and lifeless on the ground.
The queasy "Nun of Dat" gradually uncoils over two alternating piano lines, one an ordinary high, mid-tempo trap hook, the other a lower arpeggio played quickly enough to crumple into a wobbly hypnotic blur.
Instead of luring players to sign baseballs by the dugout before the first pitch, as was their father-son tradition, my son watched his dad crumple in the aisles and searched the bleachers for an usher.
A career official at the civil rights office of the Homeland Security Department, whose job is to process complaints by people who feel they have been mistreated, watched staff members crumple into tears at their desks.
That time was proportional to the amount of time it had been squeezed for—meaning if you crumple up a candy wrapper and then let go, its structure locks in information on how long the crumpling lasted.
One way to do this, says Chen Haibo, a naval architect working on the problem at Lloyd's Register's Beijing office, is to fit the barges with crumple zones packed with materials such as corrugated steel and wood.
Donaire, nearly 37 and savvy, uses the short delay to run away from Inoue, so that when he does finally crumple to the canvas, he's bought himself seconds of recovery time additional to the ref's 10-count.
Electric vehicles are in fact better cars – fewer moving parts, weight ideally distributed front-to-rear below the car's center of gravity, big crumple safety zones up front, near instantaneous torque response, and full torque from standstill.
When Darcy and Lizzie Bennet are at a party and he comments to his friends that her body is "tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me," Lizzie's reaction is to crumple into a ball and cry.
His electronic mesh could now be stretched by up to 250 per cent, yet crumple-up like paper, and be dropped from a height of 1 meter without breaking "That was a truly big jump for us," says Someya.
These include a system built by Jaguar that raises the hood of the car after an impact to provide a softer crumple zone for the unfortunate pedestrian, and another by Volvo that actually deploys airbags out of the bonnet.
Even after the Tokyo team created and attached polymer LED's to the film and electrodes, the resulting e-skin display was only three micrometers thick and was still flexible enough to crumple and bend in response to body movement.
Now, while the rigidity of the Taycan may mean a more stable cabin, we&aposve seen how passengers benefit in crashes where certain parts of the car around them actually give way or crumple, like a piece of paper.
Thursday morning, one did just that, for all the wrong reasons: A blimp cruising over the US Open golf tournament in Erin Hills, Wisconsin appeared to deflate and crumple, then caught fire and crashed in a plume of black smoke.
At least 2334 people are dead and more than 250 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the city of Tainan to collapse and crumple onto its side.
At least 22 people are dead and more than 2300 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the city of Tainan to collapse and crumple onto its side.
The colors don't remain in unison: a closer look around the room reveals a splash of brown in the blues, a streak of purple in the golds, or a crumple of all the colors in one small square foot segment.
Teacher tip: In the classroom, have students write down a time when they've felt like an impostor on a loose leaf piece of paper, crumple the paper into a ball, and throw it into a designated area of the room.
His characters crumple, bellow and gesticulate as if they've got a huge stage they need to fill; his blotchy, wriggling lines magically fall together into the contours of a worn-out suit or the light on a litter-speckled stairwell.
That first day on the pills he'd felt something like mania, his thoughts a bright crumple of tinfoil—he'd cleaned both cars, taken boxes down from the attic, decided he would have the crew turn the space into a painting studio for Linda.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are fighting to repel Islamic State from the dam, 40 km (26 miles) upstream of the IS bastion city of Raqqa, but paused on Sunday to give engineers access after IS warned the dam could crumple.
I'd try, struggle through easy workouts, then open my front door and reflexively look to where my dog would be waiting for me, cocooned in blankets on the corner of the couch, and then I'd crumple because of course she wasn't there.
Only one  party attendee, a woman wearing a shiny blue shift dress and a look of disdain, took a flyer and then proceeded to slowly crumple it in her fist, dodging other passerby so she could dramatically throw it in a garbage can.
The great thing about bodywork, of course, is that a fighter can catch his opponent breathing in and get that one shot crumple, or the fighter can keep digging to the body and readily see the change in his opponent as the minutes tick on.
In Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (264), probably his most famous film role, he was a police inspector tracking a serial killer — an "assiduous sleuth whose features crumple into dismay at his wife's reckless experiments with haute cuisine," as the critic Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian.
Pros: Fun for all ages, an easy way to spend quality time with your kids Cons: Adults might tire of the game before the kids do; playing cards tear or crumple easily Buy Exploding Kittens on Amazon for $19.99 Buy Ticket to Ride on Amazon for $38.87
PEBBLE BEACH, California (Reuters) - Knowing all too well what it is like to be struck down by injury Tiger Woods spared a thought for Kevin Durant on Tuesday, after watching the Golden State Warriors forward crumple to the floor during a game against the Toronto Raptors.
But while center-left politicians might cut such a deal to protect the judiciary if Mr. Netanyahu seemed on the verge of capturing a 61st seat, they would be less likely to crumple with Mr. Netanyahu three seats away from being able to exert his will.
People often ape what they see in the media; according to Cowan, even police officers have been known to crumple when hit by a bullet—not for any physiological reason, but because that's what television and other social cues have conditioned humans to believe is the correct response.
As dangerous as these cars were, and I mean these were the kind of vehicles that'd crumple like accordians if we drove into a strong headwind at the right speed, they were cheap and functional and exactly what you needed when all you wanted to do was escape. Fast.
Many training courses on how to fall off a horse encourage riders to be careful about breaking their descent with their arms, but Anderson says that if you're going down head first, you should use your arms as a bumperlike "crumple zone": A broken wrist is better than brain trauma.
Once you've read the relevant passage, watched the frog deflate and crumple before your eyes as a giant water bug turns it into an amphibian smoothie and sucks it dry, you can't unread the passage, the side effects of which — as is often the case with Dillard — can be long-lasting.
But the moment Josh took Lindsay on a tour of the space, chattering claims for the various installations, the spectacle seemed to deflate and crumple into a yawn of banners and shooting galleries and an awareness of how forced much of it was—how geared to provoking a reaction, any reaction, prior to genuine insight.
Developer Bethesda's games are infamous for their plentiful bugs, and while they can be easy to overlook in a typical video game, I found them significantly more jarring in VR. It's unsettling seeing a body crumple after you strike it with a deadly blow, only for the corpse to remain floating a few feet above the ground.
While gin maintained a generally urbane and sophisticated image in the 20th century—bringing to mind the world-weary crumple chic of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, or perhaps Ian Fleming propping up the bar on his third industrial-strength martini—it bears mentioning that the drink consumed in 18th-century London was a far grizzlier beast.
Ringcraft is necessary on the ground in the modern mixed martial arts game, as the wall walk and bridging off the fence are considerably more powerful than the basic set of escapes from the bottom, but a fighter can just as easily use the fence to crumple his opponent's posture and leave them with no way to avoid ground and pound.
What we need to do is build crumple zones, some resilience in the system, and if Britain gets out now we can begin building up these networks, with places like Switzerland and non-Euro EU countries too, and showing people: this is how the EU system can evolve if you guys realise that the Monnet system is going to hit the buffers.

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