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noun
A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The act of crinkling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Chocolate crinkle; a type of cookie made of primarily cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and water
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: baking, cooking, food, lifestyle
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verb
To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wrinkle, furrow, crease, seam, line
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: depression, impression, imprint
Narrower terms: crow's foot, crow's feet, laugh line, dermatoglyphic, frown line, line of life, life line, lifeline, line of heart, heart line, love line, mensal line, line of fate, line of destiny, line of Saturn
verb
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, fold up
verb
make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, fold up, turn up
Narrower terms: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit, ruck, ruck up
History
From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
