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crimpling

crimpling is the present participle and gerund of crimple.

Meaning of crimple

Verb

crimple (third-person singular simple present crimples, present participle crimpling, simple past and past participle crimpled)

  1. (archaic) to crumple, crimp
    • Esme assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak.1894, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Green Carnation

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Questions about crimpling

What is crimpling the present participle and gerund of?
Crimpling is the present participle and gerund of crimple.

Words near crimpling in the dictionary

  1. crimpings
  2. crimple
  3. crimpled
  4. crimplene
  5. crimples
  6. crimpling
  7. crimpness
  8. crimps
  9. crimpy
  10. crims
  11. crimson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crimpling (page history and authors); crimple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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