crimped
Because it is a word with a single syllable, crimped is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcrimped
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
Example: "Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
Example: "He crimped the wire in place."
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- With a crimp in it; crushed shut.
Example: "The crimped edges had been welded in earlier models."
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