| wrinkle | 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." "Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth." (Emerson) 2. Hence, any roughness; unevenness. "Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky." (Dryden) 3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. Wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. Origin: OE. Wrinkil, AS. Wrincle; akin to OD. Wrinckel, and prob. To Dan. Rynke, Sw. Rynka, Icel. Hrukka, OHG. Runza, G. Runzel, L. Ruga. 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." "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. Origin: Wrinkled; Wrinkling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wrinkler muscle of eyebrow | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, from orbital portion of musculus orbicularis oculi and nasal prominence; insertion, skin of eyebrow; action, draws medial end of eyebrow downward and wrinkles forehead vertically; nerve supply, facial. Synonym: musculus corrugator supercilii, Coiter's muscle, corrugator muscle, wrinkler muscle of eyebrow. (05 Mar 2000) |
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purse: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out" furrow: make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) rumple: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
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| wrinkle |
small fold in the epidermis or periostracum.
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a furrow, ridge, line, or crease in the skin; also called a rhytid
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(informal) an approach, method, development, device, or the like (usu. prec. by new):
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a crease or pucker in a piece of material such as paper or cloth
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| wrinkle | a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface |
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| wrinkle | become wrinkled or crumpled or creased |
| wrinkle | make wrinkled or creased |
| wrinkle | make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface |
| wrinkle | gather or contract into wrinkles or folds |
| wrinkle | of fabric that does not wrinkle easily |
| wrinkle | (of linens or clothes) not ironed |
| wrinkle | made or become wrinkled as by crushing or folding |
| wrinkle | marked with wrinkles or furrows |
| wrinkle | not wrinkled or creased |
| wrinkle | of fabric that does not wrinkle easily |
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