Crossword clues for wrinkle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.]
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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. ``Sport that wrinkled Care derides.''
--Milton.Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
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Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.
--Milton.Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.
--Bryant.To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.]
--Marston.
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
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. ????.]
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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. ``The wrinkles in my brows.''
--Shak.Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
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hence, any roughness; unevenness.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.
--Dryden. [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.]
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
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 sense from 1610s. Related: Wrinkled; wrinkling.
"fold or crease in the extenal body," late 14c.; in cloth or clothing from early 15c., probably from wrinkle (v.). Meaning "defect, problem" first recorded 1640s; that of "idea, device, notion" (especially a new one) is from 1817.
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 to be iron out. 4 (context dated English) A notion or fancy; a whim. n. 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 to be iron out. 4 (context dated English) A notion or fancy; a whim. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles. 2 (context intransitive English) To pucker or become uneven or irregular. 3 (context intransitive English) (context skin English) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age. 4 (context intransitive obsolete English) To sneer (''at''). Etymology 2
n. (context US dialect English) A winkle.
WordNet
n. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line]
a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: purse]
make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" [syn: ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp]
make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow, crease]
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, crease, crinkle]
Wikipedia
A wrinkle, also known as a rhytide, is a fold, ridge or crease in the skin or on fabric. Skin wrinkles typically appear as a result of aging processes such as glycation, habitual sleeping positions, loss of body mass, or temporarily, as the result of prolonged immersion in water. Age wrinkling in the skin is promoted by habitual facial expressions, aging, sun damage, smoking, poor hydration, and various other factors.
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.