MEANING
1. Press material into small folds or a compressed shape.
2. An obstacle that limits what can be done.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- crimp an edge
- crimp a connector
On the page
She crimped the foil tightly around the rim.
Word forms
- Base
- crimp
- Past tense
- crimped
- Past participle
- crimped
- Present participle
- crimping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- crimp
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crimping
- Present perfect
- have/has crimped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crimping
- Past
- crimped
- Past continuous
- was/were crimping
- Past perfect
- had crimped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crimping
- Future
- will crimp
- Future continuous
- will be crimping
- Future perfect
- will have crimped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crimping
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: crimp; crimps; crimped; crimped; crimping. Noun singular crimp; plural crimps. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: crimps.
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