Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
CRUMPLE
pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit
(verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; “She puckered her lips”
buckle, crumple
(verb) fold or collapse; “His knees buckled”
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
(verb) fall apart; “the building crumbled after the explosion”; “Negotiations broke down”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crumple (plural crumples)
A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
Verb
crumple (third-person singular simple present crumples, present participle crumpling, simple past and past participle crumpled)
(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
(transitive) To cause to collapse.
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
(intransitive, figurative) To collapse.
Anagrams
• clumper
Source: Wiktionary
Crum"ple (krm"p'l), v. t. [imp & p. p. Crumpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling (-plng).] Etym: [Dim. fr. crump, a.]
Definition: To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.
Crum"ple, v. i.
Definition: To contract irregularly; to show wrinkless after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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