Synonyms of the word

crimp

• adj. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• adj. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together,…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
• n. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• n. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many…
• n. (obsolete) A card game.
• v. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• v. To style hair into a crimp.
• v. To join the edges of food products.
• n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing…
• n. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a…
• v. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

abductor

• n. One who abducts; a kidnapper.
• n. (anatomy) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body.

angularity

• n. (uncountable) The property or characteristic of possessing angles.
• n. (countable) A sharp point or angle.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

crape

• n. Alternative form of crepe (“a thin fabric, paper, or pancake”).
• n. Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
• v. (transitive) To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crimper

• n. Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
• n. (chiefly Britain) hairdresser.
• n. Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
• n. A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
• n. A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
• n. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
• n. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• n. An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.

curl

• n. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
• n. A curved stroke or shape.
• n. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
• n. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
• n. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• n. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
• n. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically…
• n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
• v. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move in curves.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
• v. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• v. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
• v. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
• v. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
• v. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

flexure

• n. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
• n. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
• n. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
• n. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
• n. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

frizz

• v. (intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
• v. (transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.
• v. To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
• v. To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
• v. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
• n. A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

frizzle

• v. (transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled.
• v. (transitive) To scorch.
• v. (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.
• v. To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
• n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.

kidnaper

• n. Alternative spelling of kidnapper.

kidnapper

• n. A person who kidnaps someone.

kink

• v. To laugh loudly.
• v. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
• n. (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a…
• n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
• n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
• n. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
• n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
• n. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation.
• v. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

lock

• n. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
• n. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
• n. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between…
• n. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
• n. Complete control over a situation.
• n. Something sure to be a success.
• n. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
• n. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
• n. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
• n. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• v. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
• v. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
• v. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
• v. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
• v. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
• v. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
• v. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To officially prevent other users from posting in (a thread).
• n. A tuft or length of hair.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

plication

• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding.
• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together…

ringlet

• n. A small ring.
• n. A lock, tress.
• n. A brown butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae,…

snatcher

• n. One who snatches, or steals by snatching.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

whorl

• n. A pattern of concentric circles.
• n. (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a…
• n. (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
• n. (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, compare 1460.
• v. (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.