About The Word Wrinkle
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Wrinkle
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What's The Definition Of Wrinkle?
[n] a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
[v] become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [v] make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [v] make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" [v] gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" Synonyms | Synonyms for Wrinkle: crease | crease | crease | crinkle | crinkle | crinkle | crisp | crumple | furrow | furrow | line | purse | ruckle | rumple | scrunch | scrunch up | seam Related Terms | Find terms related to Wrinkle: See Also | cockle | contract | crow's feet | crow's foot | crumple | cutis | depression | dermatoglyphic | fold | fold | fold up | fold up | heart line | impression | imprint | knit | laugh line | life line | lifeline | line of destiny | line of fate | line of heart | line of life | line of Saturn | love line | mensal line | pucker | ruck | ruck up | rumple | skin | tegument | turn up Wrinkle In Webster's Dictionary \Wrin"kle\, n.
A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
\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. ????.] 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. Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. --Emerson. 2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden. 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.] \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrinkling}.] 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. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. --Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton. Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant. {To wrinkle at}, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston. \Wrin"kle\, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges. |
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