crimped
Meaning of crimped
verb, past tense
- compress (something) into small folds or ridges.
she crimped the edge of the pie
- have a limiting or adverse effect on (something).
his zeal about his career can crimp the rest of his life
Old English gecrympan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krimpen ‘shrink, wrinkle’. Of rare occurrence before the 18th century, the word was perhaps reintroduced from Low German or Dutch.
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Hyphenation of crimped
crimped
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- crimped is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
crimped synonyms
Meaning speak in a melodious way:
Meaning fold into pleats:
Meaning contract or cause to contract into wrinkles or folds:
Meaning disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it:
Meaning make a rut, groove, or trail in (the ground or the surface of something):
Meaning make a groove or grooves in:
Meaning mark with or form into narrow raised bands:
Meaning make a crease in (cloth or paper):
Meaning form or become marked with lines or folds:
Meaning form into small surface creases or wrinkles:
Meaning crush (something, typically paper or cloth) so that it becomes creased and wrinkled:
Meaning (especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds:
Meaning draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it:
Meaning grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb:
Meaning another term for ruck2:
Words that rhyme with crimped
amped, camped, champed, clamped, cramped, crossclamped, damped, decamped, encamped, enstamped, lamped, misstamped, prestamped, ramped, restamped, revamped, scamped, stamped, stramped, swamped, tamped, timestamped, tramped, uncamped, unclamped, uncramped, undamped, unencamped, unramped, unscamped, unstamped, untramped, unvamped, vamped, kemped, temped, blimped, flimped, gimped, guimped, imped, limped, pimped, primped, scrimped, shrimped, skimped, skrimped, unimped, unscrimped
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