Crumple vs Crimple - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between crumple and crimple

is that crumple is to rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together while crimple is to crumple, crimp.

is a crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.

(en noun)

A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.

(crumpl)

To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.

To cause to collapse.

To become wrinkled.

To collapse.

* crumple zone

(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. }}