crisp
/kɹɪsp/ verb C2- To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting. · to crisp bacon by frying it
- To add small amounts of colour to (something); to tinge, to tint.
- To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting. · to put celery into ice water to crisp
- To make a sharp crackling or crunching sound.
- To curl (something, such as fabric) into tight, stiff folds or waves; to crimp, to crinkle; specifically, to form (hair) into tight curls or ringlets.
- To cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.
- To twist or wrinkle (a body part).
- To become curled into tight, stiff folds or waves.
He/she/it crisps · Past crisped · Past participle crisped · -ing form crisping
Verb forms
- Base form
- crisp
- He/she/it
- crisps
- Past
- crisped
- Past participle
- crisped
- -ing form
- crisping
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There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the heart of that crawling bank.
But she thought that if Gilbert had ever walked home with her from the train, over the crisp fields and along the ferny byways, they might have had many and merry and interesting conversations about the new world that was opening around them and their hopes and ambitions therein.
You remember the kind of numb cold which used to come at evening, a deadly, sickening sort of cold, very different from a crisp healthy frost.
The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.
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