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.
Wiktionary
n. A pattern of wrinkles. vb. (present participle of wrinkle English)
Usage examples of "wrinkling".
The land became more broken, with wooded gullies and ravines wrinkling the floor of the forest.
The spotty president ascended with Byron to a back bedroom where the same sepia picture of Marlene Dietrich hung, wrinkling and askew.
The Gringg stood looking around him, sniffing the air, nostrils wrinkling ever so slightly.
Immediately she popped the seal on her helmet and began stripping off the suit, wrinkling her nose slightly at the metallic smell.
She admitted coming from Procyon's planet, Truro, wrinkling her nose because her homeworld had as much a reputation for oddball cults and preserves as Capella had for strictly methody ways.
Gallard said, wrinkling his nose as the last man to hang his gear up in the storage closet.
I know,” he added, wrinkling his nose as if he could still smell the reek of decaying hides.
She was very pretty, could even have been called beautiful, despite the wrinkling of her skin.
He stepped carefully around the spilled beets, his nose wrinkling in distaste.
Her nose wrinkling, all her instincts suddenly on alert-was he ill, had he had a stroke or something?
She frowned, her brow wrinkling, and he smoothed the creases with his fingertip.
Eichmann was now sitting up straight, wrinkling his whole face in suspicion, the embodiment of a malevolent secret police officer.
There Werner Beck stood, bowing, clicking his heels, wrinkling his eyes shut in an amiable smile.
You're wrinkling it, and it's very hard for me to make the seams match when you do that.
Sadi demanded, sniffing at one of the tankards and wrinkling his nose.