Wrinkle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
  • n. A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
  • n. A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.
  • n. A problem or imperfection; a fault: The report had to be revised because of a few wrinkles.
  • v. To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
  • v. To draw up into wrinkles; pucker: wrinkled her nose in disdain.
  • verb-intransitive. To form wrinkles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
  • n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
  • n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
  • v. To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
  • v. To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A winkle.
  • n. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold
  • n. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
  • n. A notion or fancy; a whim.
  • v. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate.
  • v. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
  • verb-intransitive. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A slight ridge in or raised line on a surface caused by contraction, folding, puckering, or rumpling; a line of corrugation, generally one of a series, either regularly or irregularly disposed; a crease: as, wrinkles in a garment, or in an old man's face; wrinkles (small corrugations) in a rock.
  • To form wrinkles in: contract, fold, or pucker into small ridges and furrows or creases; corrugate; crease.
  • To become contracted into wrinkles; shrink into furrows and ridges; be marked with wrinkles.
  • n. A short pithy piece of information or advice; a valuable hint; a bit of useful knowledge or instruction; a good idea; a trick; a point; a notion; a device.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
  • n. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
  • v. make wrinkled or creased
  • n. a minor difficulty
  • v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
  • v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
  • n. a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
  • Verb Form
    wrinkled    wrinkles    wrinkling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fold up    fold    turn up    difficulty    contract    method   
    Cross Reference
    expedient    ruffled   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    winkle    corrugation    crease    unevenness    whim    corrugate    rumple    crumple    crinkle    knit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dinkel    finckle    finkle    kinkle    sprinkle    tinkle    trinkle    twinkle    winkle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thin    scar    tan    wither    ugly    hairy    lean    tattered    shiny    dusty