crimple

[krim-puhl]

verb (used with or without object)

crimpled, crimpling 

1. to wrinkle.

crimple

/ ˈkrɪmpəl /

verb

1. to crumple, wrinkle, or curl

Word History and Origins

Origin of crimple¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See crimp ¹, -le

Example Sentences

So long as you were “just a little bit careful about them grabbing your mask or getting a hold of your hose – those days we had two-hose regulators and they could crimple it, and tighten it up so the air would be cut off.”

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"And it would be easier to install on the high-level viaducts along the route, including the Wharfedale and Crimple Valleys and the Knaresborough viaduct, where overhead cables would be an eyesore on what are now Grade 2 listed structures."

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Ward, keeping the gun pointing her way, sneered at her in a way that made the soul of Billy Louise crimple.

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From the Crimple Brook to Acaster Sailby, a Canal 68,628 Add Ten per Cent. for Contingencies 8,442 92,864 20 m.

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From the lowest part of the Bond End, at the bottom of the High-Street, in Knaresbro’, to the Brook Crimple, on Ribston-Green, a double Railway 15,794 9m.

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Related Words

• break down 
• buckle 
• crush 
• scrunch