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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To form wrinkles or ripples.
  2. v. To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.
  3. v. To cause to crinkle.
  4. n. A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To form or mark with short curves, waves, or wrinkles; make with many flexures; mold into corrugations; corrugate.
  2. To turn or wind; bend; wrinkle; be marked by short waves or ripples; curl; be corrugated or crimped.
  3. To cringe.
  4. n. A wrinkle; a turn or twist; a ripple; a corrugation.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
  2. n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
  2. v. To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  3. n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
  2. v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
  3. n. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English crincan (Wiktionary)
  2. From Middle English crinkled, full of turnings. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. curl
  1. wrinkle
  1. sinuosity
  1. ripple
  1. twist

hypernyms (2)

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  1. fold up
  1. fold

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. ruck
  2. coffee-stained
  3. pucker
  4. topick
  1. high-button
  2. mustard-yellow
  3. fourth-place
  4. sweat-stained
  1. ash-blond
  2. blood-spattered
  3. tweedy
  4. shaggy-haired
  1. top-10
  2. one-dollar
  3. dolefulness
  4. crump
  1. matte-black
  2. tempera
  3. wine-stained
  4. yellowish-white
  1. mud-spattered

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. crencle
  2. crankle
  1. crêpe
  2. crepe paper
  1. frizzle
  2. to frizzle up
  1. crape
  2. crinkly
  1. crunkle
  2. crinkle

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  • yarb All that remains of eights
    is spray pounded into white powder wafted
    a second, the surface crinkled a moment
    and then reverting to flawed glass, clap
    of blades re-echoed between black banks before
    drowning, before they lose way to the tow.

    - Peter Reading, Severn at Worcester, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008

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