Crinkle vs. Wrinkle — What's the Difference?

To form wrinkles or ripples.

A wrinkle, also known as a rhytide, is a fold, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface, such as on skin or fabric. Skin wrinkles typically appear as a result of ageing processes such as glycation, habitual sleeping positions, loss of body mass, sun damage, or temporarily, as the result of prolonged immersion in water.

To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.

A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.

To cause to crinkle.

A line or crease in the skin, as from age.

A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.

A different or unexpected development, action, or idea

(ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.

A problem or imperfection

(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in

A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

To draw up into wrinkles; pucker

The act of crinkling

To form wrinkles.

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.

To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.

A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.

A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;

A twist on something existing; a novel difference.

Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface;

(transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;

(intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.

To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.

To sneer (at).

A winkle.

A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.

Hence, any roughness; unevenness.

A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;

A minor difficulty;

A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker;

Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface;

Make wrinkled or creased;

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;