Corrugate

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  • intransitive verb. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves.
  • intransitive verb. To become shaped into such folds or ridges and grooves.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness.
  • transitive verb. a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To wrinkle.
  • verb. To fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. fold into ridges
  • Word Usage
    "Aquafina is also driving additional environmental benefits by producing the bottle at purification centers where filling occurs and by eliminating cardboard base pads from 24-packs, which will contribute to saving 20 million pounds of corrugate by 2010."
    Antonyms
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    smooth  
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    fold  fold up  turn up  
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    verb-form