different between scrimped vs crimped

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scrimped

scrimped (comparative more scrimped, superlative most scrimped)

pinched
- 1955, Don Marion Wolfe, Charles Irving Glicksberg, New Voices (volume 2, page 296)
  She didn't want this girl with the thin, scrimped face of a scared rabbit to be herself. It was the face of someone Fraulein had made. A little girl out of an old story book. A little German girl with huge eyes.

crimped

simple past tense and past participle of crimp
The sharp bend had crimped the pipe so almost no water could get through.

crimped (comparative more crimped, superlative most crimped)

With a crimp in it; crushed shut.
The crimped edges had been welded in earlier models.

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