Definition of "crumpling"
The act by which something crumples.
Quotations
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.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959