crimp
verb/krɪmp/
/krɪmp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they crimp | /krɪmp/ /krɪmp/ |
| he / she / it crimps | /krɪmps/ /krɪmps/ |
| past simple crimped | /krɪmpt/ /krɪmpt/ |
| past participle crimped | /krɪmpt/ /krɪmpt/ |
| -ing form crimping | /ˈkrɪmpɪŋ/ /ˈkrɪmpɪŋ/ |
- crimp something to make curls in somebody’s hair by pressing it with a heated tool
烫发；使（头发）拳曲；使（头发）成波形 - crimped blonde hair
烫卷的金发
- crimped blonde hair
- crimp something to press cloth, paper, etc. into small folds
把（织物、纸等）压出皱纹；使起皱 - She crimped the edge of the pie.
她将馅饼的边缘压出了褶。
- She crimped the edge of the pie.
- crimp something (North American English, informal) to limit the growth or development of something
阻止，妨碍（某事物的发展） - Shrinking state revenues have crimped security budgets.
国家收入的减少导致安全预算缩减。
- Shrinking state revenues have crimped security budgets.
Word OriginOld English gecrympan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krimpen ‘shrink, wrinkle’. Rare before the 18th cent., the word was perhaps reintroduced from Low German or Dutch.