Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To cover in crepe.

    cover or drape with crape

  2. (transitive)To crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper

  3. (transitive)To frizz (the hair).

Examples

12 sentences

  1. I love crepes.

    Я дуже люблю млинці. — Rovo

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  2. These homemade crepes are very thin.

    deDiese selbstgemachten Crêpes sind sehr dünn. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Get me a crepe from there.

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  4. My mum knows how to make crepes.

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  5. Do you have any ivory crepe blouses in medium?

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Origin

Borrowed from French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp and crape.

Borrowed from French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp and crape.

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Forms

crepes, creping, creped, creped
Base formcrepe · to crepe
3rd person singularcrepes
Present participlecreping
Past simplecreped
Past participlecreped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrepe
he, she, itcrepes

Past simpleLesson

all personscreped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave creped
he, she, ithas creped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crepe

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • cover or drape with crape:crape

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
creepyB2crematecrematoriumcreolecrescendocrescent

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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