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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRINKLE, v.i. To turn or wind; to bend; to wrinkle; to run in and out in little or short bends or turns; as, the lightning crinkles.
CRINKLE, v.t. To form with short turns or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities.
CRINKLE, n. A wrinkle; a winding or turn; sinuosity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line] v
1: 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" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp]
2: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (crinkled; crinkling) Etymology: Middle English crynkelen; akin to Old English cringan to yield Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. to form many short bends or ripples b. wrinkle 2. to give forth a thin crackling sound ; rustle <crinkling silks> transitive verb to cause to crinkle ; make crinkles in II. noun Date: 1596 1. wrinkle, corrugation, pucker 2. any of several virus diseases of plants marked by crinkling of leaves • crinkly adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a wrinkle or crease in paper, cloth, etc. --v. 1 intr. form crinkles. 2 tr. form crinkles in. Phrases and idioms: crinkle-cut (of vegetables) cut with wavy edges. Derivatives: crinkly adj. Etymology: ME f. OE crincan: see CRANK(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crinkle Crin"kle (kr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (-kl[i^]ng).] [A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe.] To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The house?s crinkled to and fro. --Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. --Skelton. The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. --Mrs. Browning.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crinkle Crin"kle, v. i. 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. The green wheat crinkles like a lake. --L. T. Trowbridge. And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. --Mrs. Browning.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crinkle Crin"kle, n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. --A. Tucker.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crinkles, crinkling, crinkled) 1. If something crinkles or if you crinkle it, it becomes slightly creased or folded. He shrugged whimsically, his eyes crinkling behind his glasses... When she laughs, she crinkles her perfectly-formed nose... VERB: V, V n 2. Crinkles are small creases or folds. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Crankle, run in and out, wind, bend. 2. Wrinkle, curl, be corrugated. II. v. a. Wrinkle, corrugate, curl.

Moby Thesaurus

ambages, anfractuosity, bristle, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, cocker, cockle, contort, convolution, corkscrew, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkling, crumple, flexuosity, flexuousness, fold, furrow, intorsion, intort, involution, knit, knot, meander, meandering, plica, pucker, purse, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, rivulation, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, rustle, scallop, screw, scrunch, serpentine, set on edge, shirr, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slink, slinkiness, snake, snakiness, swirl, swish, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twisting, undulation, wave, waving, whirl, whish, whorl, wimple, wind, winding, worm, wring, wrinkle