Crumpled vs Crimpled - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between crumpled and crimpled

is that crumpled is past tense of crumple while crimpled is past tense of crimple.

is squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds.

(head)

Squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds.

The crumpled pieces of paper were used as packing because they took up much more space that way than when they were flat.

(head)

(crumple)

(head)

(crimple)

(crimpl)

(archaic) to crumple, crimp

*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Robert Smythe Hichens, title=The Green Carnation, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Esme assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1862, author=James R. Gilmore, title=Among the Pines, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape. }}