'Wrinkle' definitions:

Definition of 'wrinkle'

From: WordNet
noun
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line]
noun
A minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
noun
A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: purse, wrinkle]
verb
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp]
verb
Make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow, wrinkle, crease]
verb
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]

Definition of 'Wrinkle'

From: GCIDE
  • Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. [1913 Webster]
  • A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
  • To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wrinkle'

From: GCIDE
  • Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wrinkle'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. ????.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. [1913 Webster]
  • Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. [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.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wrinkle'

From: GCIDE
  • Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'wrinkle'

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