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wrinkle
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface. 2 A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue. 3 A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (transitive), probably from stem of Old English gewrinclod "wrinkled, crooked, winding," past participle of gewrinclian "to wind, crease," from perfective prefix ge- + -wrinclian "to wind," from Proto-Germanic *wrankjan (see wrench (v.)). Intransitive ...
Usage examples of wrinkle.
The long Aenean stride readily matched wagons bumping and groaning over roadless wrinkled hills.
Red Indian chief in full war- paint, the lined lips compressed to a thread, eyes wrinkled, nostrils aflare, and the whole face lit by so naked a passion of hate that I started.
Yankees, but I guess they have a wrinkle or two to grow afore they progress ahead on us yet.
Dismounting in the outer yard, Alec wrinkled his nose at the dismal stench of urine and burning tallow that hung over the place.
Ayla studied the wrinkled face, which had become blank and unexpressive, and the white-knuckled arthritic old hands.
He was dressed for the office, but his navy suit was wrinkled, his expensive tie askew, his thinning hair unkempt.
Pearl, unpack and hang everything up carefully, iron things that had wrinkled, take a bath, put on the pajamas she usually wore when she slept without me, get in bed with Pearl, have a half cup of frozen chocolate yogurt sweetened with aspartame, and watch a movie.
It was accelerating ather forehead wrinkled with disbeliefat a rate equal to tens of thousands of gravities!
He looked out of character in the tuxedo that wrinkled baggily around his lumpy body.
I imagined, for a moment, that I had the powers of a cetic and that I could see the wrinkled, ancient Soli through the taut olive skin of his new body, in the same manner one envisions a fireflower drying to a brittle black, or the skull of death beneath the pink flesh of a newborn baby boy.
It was a boy-nightmare, the sort of environment Chia knew from the brothers of friends, its floor and ledgelike bed long vanished beneath unwashed clothes, ramen-wrappers, Japanese magazines with wrinkled covers.
Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
Chingachgook spoke up, his face creasing into a smile so thoroughly wrinkled that his eyes disappeared.
Duran remembered the alembic, picked the head up in thick rags, poured out his decoction from the cucurbit, wrinkling his nose.
She wrinkled her nose and slipped her darter from the snap-flap holster, checked the charge and the paralevel.