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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wrinkled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wrinkled (=covered in lines because of age)
▪ an old lady with wrinkled skin
wrinkled/lined (=with a lot of small lines, especially because of old age)
▪ His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ With his pale, wrinkled face and his red, staring eyes, he looked like a devil out of hell.
▪ His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.
▪ The wrinkled face of a gigantic tortoise.
▪ Mr Hellyer was digging with extraordinary vigour, the sweat streamed in runnels down his dark, rather engagingly wrinkled face.
▪ Typically, brownies are small and shaggy haired, with a brown, wrinkled face.
▪ But she was tiny, with a wrinkled face and steely grey eyes.
▪ I could see the contention in his wrinkled face.
▪ Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the red wrinkled face of the sleeping child.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a small man with a balding head and a very wrinkled face
▪ At the far end of the market, a wrinkled old woman sat smoking a pipe.
▪ Chris, as usual, came in wearing old jeans and a wrinkled T-shirt.
▪ Her face looked old and wrinkled in the morning light.
▪ Mrs Franz sat on the step, shelling peas with her wrinkled old hands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, oedema of dependent parts suggests fluid excess, while dry, wrinkled skin and a dry tongue suggest fluid deficit.
▪ His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.
▪ It secretes a new, soft wrinkled skin beneath the shell.
▪ The wrinkled face of a gigantic tortoise.
▪ The tiddly ball completed the journey in his wrinkled hand.
▪ Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrinkled

Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.]

  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.

    Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
    --Pope.

  2. 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.

Wiktionary
wrinkled

  1. (context of a surface English) uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide of animals. v

  2. (en-past of: wrinkle)

WordNet
wrinkled

  1. adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks" [syn: wrinkly]

  2. made or become wrinkled as by crushing or folding; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes" [ant: unwrinkled]

  3. (of linens or clothes) not ironed; "a pile of unironed laundry"; "wore unironed jeans" [syn: unironed] [ant: ironed]

Usage examples of "wrinkled".

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.

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.

Chingachgook spoke up, his face creasing into a smile so thoroughly wrinkled that his eyes disappeared.

She wrinkled her nose and slipped her darter from the snap-flap holster, checked the charge and the paralevel.

It was at this moment that sunlight coming through the big window painted Bret and the machine that encaged him gold, so that he looked like the statue of a remote, wrinkled and pagan god.

Fair now the brows old Pain had erewhile wrinkled, And peace and strength about the calm mouth dwell.

The expression on her wrinkled face reminded him of a child expecting candy.