MEANING
Form or make small, irregular folds or creases.
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Words that belong together
- crinkle paper
- eyes crinkle
On the page
The paper crinkled beneath her fingers.
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Word forms
- Base
- crinkle
- Past tense
- crinkled
- Past participle
- crinkled
- Present participle
- crinkling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- crinkle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crinkling
- Present perfect
- have/has crinkled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crinkling
- Past
- crinkled
- Past continuous
- was/were crinkling
- Past perfect
- had crinkled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crinkling
- Future
- will crinkle
- Future continuous
- will be crinkling
- Future perfect
- will have crinkled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crinkling
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: crinkle; crinkles; crinkled; crinkled; crinkling 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: crinkles.
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