Wrinkle

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  • noun. A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
  • noun. A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
  • noun. A different or unexpected development, action, or idea.
  • noun. A problem or imperfection.
  • intransitive verb. To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
  • intransitive verb. To draw up into wrinkles; pucker.
  • intransitive verb. To form wrinkles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A winkle.
  • intransitive verb. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
  • noun. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold
  • noun. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
  • noun. A notion or fancy; a whim.
  • transitive verb. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate.
  • transitive verb. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
  • transitive verb. to sneer at.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
  • noun. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
  • noun. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
  • verb. To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
  • verb. To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
  • noun. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
  • verb. make wrinkled or creased
  • noun. a minor difficulty
  • verb. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
  • verb. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
  • noun. a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
  • Word Usage
    "People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert."
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    dinkel  finckle  finkle  kinkle  sprinkle  
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