| 单词 | crinkle |
| 释义 | crinkle (once / 6318 pages) vn When you ball up a piece of paper in your hand, you crinkle it — you make a smooth thing wrinkled. Use the verb crinkle to describe what happens when you ball up a freshly ironed shirt and shove it in a suitcase, or the way your favorite teacher scrunches her eyes when she smiles. You can also call the creases or wrinkles themselves crinkles. You might become so annoyed at the crinkles in your curtains that you take them down and iron them. Crinkle comes from the Old English crincan, "to bend or to yield." WORD FAMILYcrinkle: crinkled, crinkles, crinkling, crinkly USAGE EXAMPLESYou may crinkling your nose and saying “ew,” but it’s actually really good. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) Several hours later, I became aware of people talking softly and the crinkling of paper. Time(Dec 01, 2016) Mama gave me the Panadol tablets, still in the silver-colored foil, which crinkled as I opened it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1v make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in Syn|Hypo|Hyper crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle cockle, crumple, knit, pucker, rumple to gather something into small wrinkles or folds pucker, ruck, ruck upbecome wrinkled or drawn together fold, fold up, turn up bend or lay so that one part covers the other 2v become wrinkled or crumpled or creased Syn|Hyper crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle fold, fold up become folded or folded up 3n a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface Syn|Hypo|Hyper crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes dermatoglyphicthe lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) frown linea facial wrinkle associated with frowning life line, lifeline, line of lifea 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 linea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature line of Saturn, line of destiny, line of fatea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be depression, impression, imprint a concavity in a surface produced by pressing |
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