crinkle

crinkle
crin|kle1 [ˈkrıŋkəl] v also crinkle up [I and T]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Perhaps from Old English cringan; CRINGE]
1.) if you crinkle part of your face, or if it crinkles, you move it so that small lines appear on it
His mouth crinkled into a smile.
He smiled boyishly, crinkling his eyes.
Her face crinkled up in disgust.
2.) to become covered with small folds, or make something do this
The heat was beginning to make the cellophane crinkle.
>crinkled adj
The pages were brown and crinkled.
crinkle 2
crinkle2 n
a thin fold, especially in your skin or on cloth, paper etc
The first crinkles of age were beginning to appear round her eyes.

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