crinkle
[verb]
Synonyms: crumple, crimp, crimple, rimple, ruck (up), ruckle, rumple, screw, scrunch, wrinkle
[noun]
Synonyms: wrinkle, corrugation, crease, fold, furrow, plica, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck

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Related Words: crimp

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. crin‧kle¹ /ˈkrɪŋkəl/ (also crinkle up) verb [intransitive and transitive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Perhaps from Old English cringan; ⇒ cringe]

1. if you crinkle part of your face, or if it crinkles, you move it so that small lines appear on it:
His mouth crinkled into a smile.
He smiled boyishly, crinkling his eyes.
Her face crinkled up in disgust.

2. to become covered with small folds, or make something do this:
The heat was beginning to make the cellophane crinkle.
—crinkled adjective:
The pages were brown and crinkled.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. crinkle² noun [countable]
a thin fold, especially in your skin or on cloth, paper etc ⇒ crease:
The first crinkles of age were beginning to appear round her eyes.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲