crinkle
verb [intransitive, transitive]to become covered with or to form a lot of thin folds or lines, especially in skin, cloth or paper (尤指皮肤、布料或纸张)变皱,起皱纹 Her face crinkled up in a smile. 她笑得满脸都是皱纹。 He smiled, his eyes crinkling (= the skin around his eyes). 他眯着眼睛笑了。 The pages crinkled and curled and turned to ashes in the fire. 书页起皱、卷曲,在火中变成灰烬。 - be crinkled
The binding had faded and the pages were crinkled. 书的封皮已经退色,纸张也皱巴巴的。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCrinkle is used with these nouns as the subject:- eye
- nose
Word Originlate Middle English: related to Old English crincan ‘bend, yield, fall in battle’, of Germanic origin.