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Wrinkle   /rˈɪŋkəl/   Listen
Wrinkle

noun
1.
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam.  "Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
2.
A minor difficulty.
3.
A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different).
verb
(past & past part. wrinkled; pres. part. wrinkling)
1.
Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.  Synonym: purse.
2.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"
3.
Make wrinkled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, furrow.
4.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple.



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"Wrinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... coughs will come when sighs depart—and now And then before sighs cease; for oft the one Will bring the other, ere the lake-like brow Is ruffled by a wrinkle, or the Sun Of Life reached ten o'clock: and while a glow, Hectic and brief as summer's day nigh done, O'erspreads the cheek which seems too pure for clay, Thousands blaze, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... to her sex, of growing old without in any very eminent degree losing her personal advantages. Her hands and arms, which had always been singularly beautiful, remained smooth and round, and delicately white. Not a wrinkle marred the dignity of her noble forehead. Her eyes, which were remarkably fine, lost neither their brightness nor their expression; and yet for years she had been suffering physical pangs only the more poignant from the resolution with which she ...
— Louis XIV., Makers of History Series • John S. C. Abbott

... an old wrinkle-faced native, bronzed and leathery almost as an Egyptian mummy, pulls a bell-rope three times, the conductor comes to the car-window for the second time and examines your ticket, the engine gives a cracked shriek and pulls ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

... him contentedly, from the hard brown hands to the wrinkle which labor had sunk in the exact center of his forehead. He was ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand

... the comrade of Japan did the brow of Jonathan wrinkle more deeply. But every Briton swore that his kinsman would bar the yellow man's way to Hawaii, California, and the Philippines, and put him in the fields of Asia only as a terror to the Russians or a scarecrow to the Germans. A doubt remained, nevertheless; and we ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various


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