crimp
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugateTo press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
» The chip shortage has crimped the world’s ability to produce automobiles.
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8 sensesTo press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
make ridges into by pinching together
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
He crimped the wire in place.
crimpen, falzen, quetschen
обжима́тьobžimátʹ, обжа́тьobžátʹ
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
wellen
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
To hold using a crimp
(transitive)To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
Examples
3 sentencesThe chip shortage has crimped the world’s ability to produce automobiles.
I crimped a ferrule around the end of the stranded brake cable to prevent it from fraying.
Devaluing the currency also means that prices rise for consumers, and it tends to crimp consumer spending.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch criFrom Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.
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Forms
crimps, crimping, crimped, crimpedSynonyms
7 synonymsWord family
10 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary 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.