Synonyms of the word

crinkle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
• v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
• n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crisp

• adj. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
• adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
• adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
• adj. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
• adj. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
• adj. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
• adj. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a…
• adj. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
• adj. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
• adj. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
• adj. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
• n. (Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
• v. (transitive) To make crisp.
• v. (intransitive) To become crisp.
• v. (transitive, dated) To curl; to form into ringlets, for example hair, or the nap of cloth.
• v. (transitive, dated) to interweave, like the branches of trees.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To undulate or ripple.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.

crumple

• n. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
• v. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
• v. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

furrow

• n. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
• n. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
• n. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
• v. (transitive) To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
• v. (transitive) To wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.

impression

• n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
• n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
• n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
• n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
• n. An outward appearance.
• n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
• n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
• n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

• n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
• v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

ruckle

• v. To crease or wrinkle.
• n. A disordered collection.
• n. A wrinkle.

rumple

• v. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
• v. To muss.
• v. To tousle.

scrunch

• v. To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
• n. A crunching noise.

seam

• n. (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more…
• n. A suture.
• n. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
• n. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces…
• n. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
• n. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
• n. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
• n. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
• n. (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
• v. To put together with a seam.
• v. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch,…
• v. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
• v. To crack open along a seam.
• v. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
• v. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard.

wrinkle

• n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
• n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
• n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
• v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
• v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
• v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
• n. (US, dialect) A winkle.