'Wrinkle' definitions:
Definition of 'wrinkle'
(from WordNet)
noun
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line]
noun
A minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
noun
A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: purse, wrinkle]
verb
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp]
verb
verb
Definition of 'Wrinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. [1913 Webster]
- A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. ????.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. "The wrinkles in my brows." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. [1913 Webster]
- Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n.] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wrinkle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- age,
- bezel,
- bonus,
- bristle,
- canal,
- canalize,
- carve,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chase,
- cheat the undertaker,
- chink,
- chisel,
- circumscribe,
- coarct,
- cocker,
- cockle,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- crack,
- cramp,
- crankle,
- cranny,
- craze,
- crease,
- crimp,
- crimple,
- crinkle,
- crumple,
- curtail,
- cut,
- dado,
- decline,
- decoration,
- decrease,
- dike,
- ditch,
- dodder,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- engrave,
- engraving,
- extra,
- extra added attraction,
- extra dash,
- fad,
- faddiness,
- faddishness,
- faddism,
- faddist,
- fade,
- fail,
- filigree,
- filling,
- fillip,
- flourish,
- flute,
- fluting,
- fold,
- frill,
- furrow,
- gash,
- get along,
- get on,
- goffer,
- gouge,
- groove,
- grow old,
- gully,
- incise,
- incision,
- knit,
- knot,
- lagniappe,
- microgroove,
- narrow,
- novelty,
- ornament,
- padding,
- pleat,
- plica,
- plow,
- premium,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- rabbet,
- rage,
- reduce,
- ridge,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rimple,
- ripple,
- rivel,
- ruck,
- ruckle,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- rut,
- score,
- scratch,
- screw,
- scrunch,
- set on edge,
- shake,
- shirr,
- shorten,
- shrivel,
- sink,
- slit,
- solidify,
- something extra,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- streak,
- stria,
- striate,
- striation,
- stuffing,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- superaddition,
- totter,
- trench,
- trimming,
- trough,
- turn gray,
- turn white,
- twist,
- wane,
- waste away,
- well-worn groove,
- wimple,
- wither,
- wizen