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— English words —

• crimp adj. (Obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• crimp adj. (Obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• crimp n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it…
• crimp n. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
• crimp n. (Usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
• crimp n. (Obsolete) A card game.
• crimp n. (Climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
• crimp n. (Climbing) A grip on such a hold.
• crimp v. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
• crimp v. (Electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• crimp v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• crimp v. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
• crimp v. To bend or mold leather into shape.
• crimp v. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
• crimp v. (Climbing) to hold using a crimp.
• crimp n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
• crimp n. (Specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a…
• crimp n. (Obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• crimp v. (Transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• crimp w. Kroezen.

— English word, defined in French —

• crimp v. Sertir.

121 English words from 19 English definitions

Act agent and applied are area around back back␣and␣forth bend bending bends brittle card card␣game Climbing contradictory cooked corrugate crimp crisper crumbled curliness curls decoy decoying Easily Electricity emigrants entrap entrapped entrapping especially etc fasten fastened fastener fastening fibres fish fleeced flesh folds form forth friable game gash grip hair hold house impress impressing inconsistent infringes into joint keeper kinks kinky law leather little lodging lodging␣house low make make␣it many Merchant metal method mold natural Obsolete of␣a One parts pinch pleat plural press procures raw ridges sailors seamen section secures seducing seize shape shaped Shipping short small soldiers so␣that Specifically squeezes squeezing style sub such surface surface␣area that that␣is the them tight Transitive using Usually Weak when where who with wool

2 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

Kroezen Sertir

23 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

crimps crimpy crimped crimper crimple Crimple crimpage crimpers crimping crimpled crimples crimpings crimplene Crimplene crimpling crimpness crimping␣pin crimping␣pins crimping␣tool crimping␣house crimping␣tools crimping␣houses crimping␣pliers

31 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

scrimps scrimpt scrimpy scrimped scrimper scrimple scrimply uncrimps scrimpers scrimpier scrimpily scrimping scrimpled scrimples uncrimped boot␣crimps scrimpiest scrimpings scrimpling scrimpness scrimption uncrimping put␣a␣crimp␣in scrimpiness scrimpingly scrimptions puts␣a␣crimp␣in scrimping␣bar scrimp␣and␣save scrimping␣bars putting␣a␣crimp␣in

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

scrimp uncrimp boot␣crimp

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

crim Crim Crim. imp IMP imp. Imp. rim

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

IRC mir miR Mir MIR PMI

6 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

camrip crimps crimpy Pac␣Rim Permic scrimp

23 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

cIMP CIMP CIPM CMIR CPRM crim Crim Crim. crip Crip ICMP ICMR MCRI MICR micr- Micr. MPRC MRCP PCRM prim -prim RCMP RMIC

17 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

chimp cramp Cramp crime CRIME Crimi CRIMM crimo Crimo crims Crims crisp Crisp crump Crump primp srimp

7 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

cIMP CIMP crim Crim Crim. crip Crip

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