verb, noun
verb to become covered with or to form a lot of thin folds or lines, especially in skin, fabric, or paper:
[V] He smiled, his eyes crinkling. * Her face crinkled up in a smile. * The pages crinkled and curled and turned to ashes in the fire. [also VN]
noun a very thin fold or line made on paper, fabric or skin:
There were crinkles at the corner of her eyes when she smiled.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for crinkle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does crinkle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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