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wrinkle

noun

1 wrinkle

A slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface:
— Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles.

synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam.

Roget 258: fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, ... show more

Dutch: rimpel, plooi, kreukel, vouw
Polish: zmarszczka

2 wrinkle

A minor difficulty.

3 wrinkle

A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different).

verb

1 wrinkle

Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.

synonym: purse.

2 wrinkle

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic:
— The dress got wrinkled.

synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up.

Roget 248: be convoluted etc. adj.; wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, ... show more

Dutch: fronsen, kreukelen, kreuken, plooien, rimpelen, verkreukelen, verkreuken

3 wrinkle

Make wrinkled or creased.

synonyms: crease, furrow.

4 wrinkle

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased:
— This fabric won't wrinkle.

synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple.

Roget 258: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, ... show more

Dutch: ineenfrommelen, verfrommelen


Moby thesaurus: abbreviate, age, bezel, bonus, bristle, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat the undertaker, chink, chisel, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress ... show more.

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