crinkle
verb /ˈkrɪŋkl/
/ˈkrɪŋkl/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they crinkle | /ˈkrɪŋkl/ /ˈkrɪŋkl/ |
| he / she / it crinkles | /ˈkrɪŋklz/ /ˈkrɪŋklz/ |
| past simple crinkled | /ˈkrɪŋkld/ /ˈkrɪŋkld/ |
| past participle crinkled | /ˈkrɪŋkld/ /ˈkrɪŋkld/ |
| -ing form crinkling | /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/ /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/ |
- to become covered with or to form a lot of thin folds or lines, especially in skin, cloth or paper
- Her face crinkled up in a smile.
- He smiled, his eyes crinkling (= the skin around his eyes).
- The pages crinkled and curled and turned to ashes in the fire.
- be crinkled The binding had faded and the pages were crinkled.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCrinkle is used with these nouns as the subject:- eye
- nose
Word Originlate Middle English: related to Old English crincan ‘bend, yield, fall in battle’, of Germanic origin.