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crispen

verb

Etymology

From crisp + -en.

  1. inherited from crisp — “light, crinkled fabric; kind of pastry; crinkliness or roughness of skin”
  2. derived from *kris-✻
  3. derived from crispus — “of hair: crimped, curly”
  4. inherited from crisp — “curly”
  5. inherited from crisp — “curly, wavy”
  6. suffixed as crispen — “crisp + en”

Definitions

  1. To make crisp.

  2. To become crisp.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA