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crinkle

noun

1 crinkle

A slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface.

synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle.

Roget 258: fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, ... show more

Dutch: rimpel, plooi, kreukel, vouw
Polish: zmarszczka

verb

1 crinkle

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic.

synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle.

Roget 244: bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.   

Dutch: fronsen, kreukelen, kreuken, plooien, rimpelen, verkreukelen, verkreuken

2 crinkle

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.

synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle.

Roget 258: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, ... show more

Dutch: ineenfrommelen, verfrommelen


Moby thesaurus: ambages, anfractuosity, bristle, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, cocker, cockle, contort, convolution, corkscrew, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkling ... show more.

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