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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
wrinkle
n 1: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his
face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
[syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam,
line]
2: a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty
well ironed out"
3: a clever method of doing something (especially something new
and different)
v 1: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse
ones's lips" [syn: purse, wrinkle]
2: 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" [syn: wrinkle,
ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up,
crisp]
3: make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow,
wrinkle, crease]
4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't
wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease,
crinkle]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Wrinkling.]
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1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin
or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." --Milton.
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Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
--Pope.
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2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
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A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.
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Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.
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To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n.
A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD.
wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka,
OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. ????.]
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1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the
shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a
corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the
skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows."
--Shak.
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Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but
unspent youth. --Emerson.
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2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
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Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden.
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3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a
twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n.] A notion or fancy; a
whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i.
To shrink into furrows and ridges.
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Thesaurus Results for wrinkle:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
abbreviate, age, bezel, bonus, bristle, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat the undertaker, chink, chisel, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cramp, crankle, cranny, craze, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, curtail, cut, dado, decline, decoration, decrease, dike, ditch, dodder, draw, draw in, draw together, engrave, engraving, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, fade, fail, filigree, filling, fillip, flourish, flute, fluting, fold, frill, furrow, gash, get along, get on, goffer, gouge, groove, grow old, gully, incise, incision, knit, knot, lagniappe, microgroove, narrow, novelty, ornament, padding, pleat, plica, plow, premium, pucker, pucker up, purse, rabbet, rage, reduce, ridge, rifle, rifling, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, rut, score, scratch, screw, scrunch, set on edge, shake, shirr, shorten, shrivel, sink, slit, solidify, something extra, strangle, strangulate, streak, stria, striate, striation, stuffing, sulcation, sulcus, superaddition, totter, trench, trimming, trough, turn gray, turn white, twist, wane, waste away, well-worn groove, wimple, wither, wizen |
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Common Misspellings > |
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