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Rippled vs Rimpled - What's the difference?

rippled | rimpled |

As verbs the difference between rippled and rimpled

is that rippled is past tense of ripple while rimpled is past tense of rimple.

As an adjective rimpled is

wrinkled.

rippled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ripple)

  • ripple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
  • I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples .
  • A sound similar to that of undulating water.
  • A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
  • I enjoy fudge ripple''' ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the '''ripple part and eat only that.
  • (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
  • An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
  • Verb

  • To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
  • To propagate like a moving wave.
  • * 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 65:
  • These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, [...].
  • To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
  • To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
  • (by extension) To scratch or tear.
  • (Holland)

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    rimpled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rimple)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wrinkled