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crin·kle  (krngkl)

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.

n.

A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.

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[From Middle English crinkled, full of turnings.]

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crinkly adj.

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crinkle [ˈkrɪŋk^əl]

vb

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

2. to make or cause to make a rustling noise

n

1. a wrinkle, twist, or fold

2. 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]

Thesaurus

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"

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crinkle

verb

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

noun

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

Translations

crinkle [ˈkrɪŋkl]

A. N → arruga f

B. VT → arrugar

C. VI → arrugarse

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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.

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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

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crinkle [ˈkrɪŋkl] vt → spiegazzare, sgualcire

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crinkle [ˈkrɪŋkl] vt → spiegazzare, sgualcire

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crinkle

v crinkle [ˈkriŋkl]

to (cause to) wrinkle or curl The paper is too crinkled for use in my computer's printer. frommel, kreukel, krinkel, rimpel يُجَعَّد، يَتَجَعَّـد набръчквам (се) zkroutit se krølle sich kräuseln ζαρώνω arrugar(se) kortsutama, kurrutama چروکیده کردن؛ مچاله کردن rypistää, rypistyä se froisser לְקֵמט सिकुड़न डालना या पड़ना izgužvati (össze)gyűr mengerut krumpa(st) sgualcire, spiegazzare しわが寄る 구기다 su(si)raukšlėti, su(si)glamžyti, garbanoti(s) izliekties; krokoties renyuk rimpelen rynke(s), krølle(s), kruse(s) marszczyć (się) enrugar-se a se încreţi мять(ся) skrčiť sa mečkati (se) zgužvati se vecka (rynka, skrynkla, krusa) [] ทำให้เป็นรอยย่นหรือลอน kırışmak (使)起皺或捲起 морщити(ся); завивати(ся) شكن làm nhàu 使起皱

adj crinkly

grey crinkly hair. verkreukeld, kreukelrig, krinkelend أجْعَد، مُتَجَعِّـد къдрав zkroucený, kadeřavý krøllet kraus σγουρός, ζαρωμένος crespo, rizado kähar فرفری kähärä crépu מְקוּמָט सिलवट, सिकुड़न izgužvano göndör keriting krumpaður, gáróttur sgualcito, spiegazzato ちぢれた 구겨진 garbanotas, rauk(šlė)tas krokains; sprogains berketak kroezig, gerimpeld kruset falisty crespo încreţit волнистый zvlnený valovit zgužvan krusig, skrynklig เป็นลอน kırışık 多皺紋的,捲曲的 у зморшках; кучерявий شكن آلود gợn sóng 波状的, 卷缩的