crinkle

1. 1.

   make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic

   “The dress got wrinkled”

   “crease the paper like this to make a crane”

   Synonymswrinklerucklecreasescrunchscrunch upcrisp

   Broaderfold

   Narrowerpucker

   archaism

2. 2.

   become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

   “This fabric won't wrinkle”

   Synonymsrumplecrumplewrinklecrease

   Broaderfold

1. 1.

   a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

   “his face has many lines”

   “ironing gets rid of most wrinkles”

   Synonymswrinklefurrowcreaseseamline

   Broaderdepression

   Narrowercrow's footdermatoglyphicfrown lineline of lifeline of heartline of fate

   Part ofskin

Other forms of crinkle

plural

crinkles·

past tense

crinkled·

present participle

crinkling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crinkle

What does crinkle mean?

crinkle means "make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crinkle?

crinkle has 2 syllables: crin-kle. The stress falls on "kle".

What is another word for crinkle?

Close synonyms include wrinkle, ruckle, crease, scrunch, scrunch up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crinkle a common word?

crinkle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.