They protect paper documents from tears, water, food, stains, and fingerprints, and partially prevent such documents from being crumpled.
The pretty blue blouse is faded and stained and crumpled on the floor in another corner.
The paraglider made a hard landing that crumpled the nose wheel.
Vronique crumples the proof sheet and breaks down in tears.
The stronger of the two crumpled a transmission tower.
Activated by crumpling the crystals together, it is applied to the wounded area.
The word banitsa is used as a simile for something (mainly documents and paperwork) crumpled, or badly maintained.
Such a controlled toppling would ensure that the remaining debris would be not be crumpled, or crumpled further, as it might be if the platform were toppled by natural forces.
