Corrugate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves.
  • verb-intransitive. To become shaped into such folds or ridges and grooves: "Now the immense ocean . . . sensed the change. Its surface rippled and corrugated where sweeping cloud shadows touched it” ( John Updike).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To wrinkle.
  • v. To fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
  • v. To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To wrinkle; draw or contract into folds; pucker: as, to corrugate the skin; to corrugate iron plates for use in building.
  • Wrinkled; contracted; puckered.
  • In zoology and botany, having a wrinkled appearance: applied to a surface closely covered with parallel and generally curved or wavy sharp ridges which are separated by deep and often depressed lines.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. fold into ridges
  • Antonym
    smooth   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    turn up    fold up    fold   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wrinkled    crumpled    furrowed    wrinkle    furrow