WRINKLE
\ɹˈɪŋkə͡l], \ɹˈɪŋkəl], \ɹ_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_əl]\
Definitions of WRINKLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled"
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become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
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a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
By Princeton University
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make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled"
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become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A winkle.
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A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
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hence, any roughness; unevenness.
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A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
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To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
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Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
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To shrink into furrows and ridges.
By Oddity Software
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A winkle.
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A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
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hence, any roughness; unevenness.
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A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
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To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
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Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
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To shrink into furrows and ridges.
By Noah Webster.
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A small ridge or furrow on a smooth surface; a crease.
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To form or cause creases or furrows in or on.
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To become creased.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small ridge on a surface from twisting or shrinking: unevenness.
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To contract into wrinkles or furrows: to make rough.
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To shrink into ridges.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance;-a corrugation of the skin of the face; a sign of age or of care;-a fold or rumple in cloth; a crease;- any roughness or unevenness.
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