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crin·kle

(krĭng′kəl)

v. crin·kled, crin·kling, crin·kles

v.intr.

1. To form wrinkles or ripples.

2. To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.

v.tr.

To cause to crinkle.

A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.

[From Middle English crinkled, full of turnings; akin to cringe.]

crin′kly adj.

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crinkle

(ˈkrɪŋkəl)

1. to form or cause to form wrinkles, twists, or folds

2. to make or cause to make a rustling noise

3. a wrinkle, twist, or fold

4. a rustling noise

[Old English crincan to bend, give way; related to Middle Dutch krinkelen to crinkle, Middle High German krank weak, ill, krenken to weaken]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

crin•kle

(ˈkrɪŋ kəl)

v. -kled, -kling,
n. v.t., v.i.

1. to wrinkle; ripple.

2. to make or cause to make slight, sharp sounds; rustle.

3. to bend or twist.

4. a wrinkle or ripple.

5. a crinkling sound.

6. a turn or twist.

[1350–1400; Middle English; akin to Old English crincan to bend, yield, Dutch krinkelen to crinkle; see cringe, -le]

crin′kly, adj. -kli•er, -kli•est.

crinkle

Past participle: crinkled
Gerund: crinkling

Imperative
crinkle
crinkle

Present
I crinkle
you crinkle
he/she/it crinkles
we crinkle
you crinkle
they crinkle

Preterite
I crinkled
you crinkled
he/she/it crinkled
we crinkled
you crinkled
they crinkled

Present Continuous
I am crinkling
you are crinkling
he/she/it is crinkling
we are crinkling
you are crinkling
they are crinkling

Present Perfect
I have crinkled
you have crinkled
he/she/it has crinkled
we have crinkled
you have crinkled
they have crinkled

Past Continuous
I was crinkling
you were crinkling
he/she/it was crinkling
we were crinkling
you were crinkling
they were crinkling

Past Perfect
I had crinkled
you had crinkled
he/she/it had crinkled
we had crinkled
you had crinkled
they had crinkled

Future
I will crinkle
you will crinkle
he/she/it will crinkle
we will crinkle
you will crinkle
they will crinkle

Future Perfect
I will have crinkled
you will have crinkled
he/she/it will have crinkled
we will have crinkled
you will have crinkled
they will have crinkled

Future Continuous
I will be crinkling
you will be crinkling
he/she/it will be crinkling
we will be crinkling
you will be crinkling
they will be crinkling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been crinkling
you have been crinkling
he/she/it has been crinkling
we have been crinkling
you have been crinkling
they have been crinkling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been crinkling
you will have been crinkling
he/she/it will have been crinkling
we will have been crinkling
you will have been crinkling
they will have been crinkling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been crinkling
you had been crinkling
he/she/it had been crinkling
we had been crinkling
you had been crinkling
they had been crinkling

Conditional
I would crinkle
you would crinkle
he/she/it would crinkle
we would crinkle
you would crinkle
they would crinkle

Past Conditional
I would have crinkled
you would have crinkled
he/she/it would have crinkled
we would have crinkled
you would have crinkled
they would have crinkled

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Noun	1.	crinkle - a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" wrinkle, seam, crease, furrow, line cutis, skin, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" imprint, impression, depression - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line - a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes dermatoglyphic - the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) frown line - a facial wrinkle associated with frowning life line, lifeline, line of life - a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal line - a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature line of destiny, line of fate, line of Saturn - a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be
Verb	1.	crinkle - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle, scrunch fold, fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" ruck, ruck up, pucker - become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"
	2.	crinkle - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" rumple, wrinkle, crease, crumple fold up, fold - become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"

crinkle

verb

1. crease, wrinkle, crumple, pucker, fold, curl, crimp When she laughs, her eyes crinkle.

noun

1. crease, wrinkle, crumple, ruffle, twist, fold, curl, rumple, pucker, crimp The fabric was smooth, without a crinkle.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

crinkle

verb

To make irregular folds in, especially by pressing or twisting:

crease, crimp, crumple, rimple, rumple, wrinkle.

noun

1. An indentation or seam on the skin, especially on the face:

crease, furrow, line, wrinkle.

2. A line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another:

crease, crimp, crumple, fold, pleat, plica, plication, pucker, rimple, ruck, rumple, wrinkle.

Translations

يُجَعَّد، يَتَجَعَّـد

zkroutit se

krølle

knittern

froisser

krumpa

arricciare crespo

garbanotasgarbanotigarbanotisraukšlėtasrauktas

izliektieskrokoties

krølle kruse rynke

skrútiť sa

kırışmak

使起皱

crinkle

[ˈkrɪŋkl]

A. N → arruga f

B. VT → arrugar

C. VI → arrugarse

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crinkle

[ˈkrɪŋk^əl]

vt [+ paper] → froisser, chiffonner; [+ nose] → froncer

vi [eyes, face, brow] → se plisser
His eyes crinkled in a smile → Ses yeux se sont plissés de rire.

crinkle

n → (Knitter)falte f; (in skin) → Fältchen nt

vt paper, foil, dress etc → (zer)knittern; cardboard, plastic etc → knicken; edge of paper → wellen

vi (= wrinkle, paper, foil, dress etc) → knittern; (face, skin) → (Lach)fältchen bekommen; (edges of paper) → sich wellen, wellig werden; (= curl: hair) → sich krausen; his eyes crinkled when he smiled → er bekam tausend Fältchen um die Augen, wenn er lächelte

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crinkle

[ˈkrɪŋkl] vt → spiegazzare, sgualcire

crinkle

(ˈkriŋkl) verb

to (cause to) wrinkle or curl. The paper is too crinkled for use in my computer's printer.

ˈcrinkly adjective

grey crinkly hair.

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