Wrinkle /(?)/
Wrin·kle
Wrinkle
n.
- A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
Wrinkle
n.
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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.
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.
- A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]
Wrinkle
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.
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.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.
Phrases & Compounds
- To wrinkle at
- to sneer at.
Wrinkle
v. i.
- To shrink into furrows and ridges.