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Crinkling
- verb - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
Crippling
- verb - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
- deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"
- that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury"
Crotonbug
- noun - small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest
Crouching
- verb - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
- Stooped
Crumbling
- verb - A British dessert made with fruit, usually apple or rhubarb, covered with a mixture of flour and fat broken into crumbs.
- break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"
- fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"
- fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
Crumpling
- verb - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
- fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"
- fold or collapse; "His knees buckled"
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
Crunching
- verb - chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"
- make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
Crusading
- verb - exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"
- go on a crusade; fight a holy war
Cuckooing
- verb - repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call
Cudgeling
- verb - strike with a cudgel