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crinkle verb [ ˈkrɪŋk(ə)l ]

• form into small surface creases or wrinkles.
• "Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment"
Similar: wrinkle, crease, pucker, furrow, line, corrugate, crimp, crumple, rumple, ruck up, scrunch up, ruckle,

crinkle noun

• a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something.
• "there was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead"
Similar: wrinkle, crease, fold, pucker, gather, furrow, ridge, line, corrugation, groove, crumple, rumple,
Origin: late Middle English: related to Old English crincan (see cringe).


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