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wrimple

wrimple verb: to wrinkle, rumple.

Verb

wrimple (third-person singular simple present wrimples, present participle wrimpling, simple past and past participle wrimpled)

  1. (transitive) To wrinkle, rumple.

Noun

wrimple (plural wrimples)

  1. A wrinkle.

Forms of wrimple

Verb
third-person singular presentwrimples
present participlewrimpling
past participlewrimpled
pastwrimpled
Noun
pluralwrimples

Origin of wrimple

From Middle English *wrimplen (suggested by Middle English wrymplyd (“wrinkled”)), probably from Middle Dutch *wrimpelen, frequentative of wrimpen, wrempen (“to wrinkle”). Cognate with West Flemish wrempelen (“to wrinkle”). Compare also Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”).

Questions about wrimple

What does wrimple mean?
Wrimple means to wrinkle, rumple.
What part of speech is wrimple?
Wrimple can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of wrimple?
The past tense of wrimple is wrimpled.

Words near wrimple in the dictionary

  1. Wriglesworths
  2. Wrigley
  3. wrigs
  4. wrily
  5. WRIM
  6. wrimple
  7. wrimples
  8. wrinch
  9. wrinched
  10. wrinches
  11. wrinching

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