Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To form wrinkles or ripples.
- intransitive verb To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.
- intransitive verb To cause to crinkle.
- noun A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form or mark with short curves, waves, or wrinkles; make with many flexures; mold into corrugations; corrugate.
- To turn or wind; bend; wrinkle; be marked by short waves or ripples; curl; be corrugated or crimped.
- To cringe.
- noun A wrinkle; a turn or twist; a ripple; a corrugation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb 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.
- transitive verb To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
- noun A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To fold, crease, crumple, or
wad . - noun A
wrinkle ,fold ,crease , orunevenness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
- verb become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- noun a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Final question, the -- because I have the same skepticism that what I would describe as the crinkle effect.
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The bags do crinkle loudly, though hardly like the "revving motorcycle" reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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After lunch, just greasy things in crinkle bags, I climb behind him on the bike.
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The crinkle of the paper as my father sat on the small examining table and the quiet creak of the door as the doctor walked in.
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SKIP the cajun-seasoned French Fries unless they upgrade to fresh potatoes ..... today they were just heavily seasoned, frozen crinkle-cut factory fries.
General Lee 2009
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The crinkle of the paper as my father sat on the small examining table and the quiet creak of the door as the doctor walked in.
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The bags do crinkle loudly, though hardly like the "revving motorcycle" reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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yarb commented on the word crinkle
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
June 22, 2008