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wrinkle

noun

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1 a small fold in a soft and otherwise smooth surface

the old woman's face creased into wrinkles as she smiled

the curtains cascaded onto the floor in ripples and wrinkles

Synonyms of wrinkle

crease, crimp, crinkle, furrow

Words Related to wrinkle

corrugation, layer, loop, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, seam, tuck

crow's-foot

2 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination

the latest wrinkle in digital photography

Synonyms of wrinkle

brainchild, coinage, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, invention

Words Related to wrinkle

contraption, device, gadget, gizmo (also gismo), novelty

design, product, work

dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision

conception, imagining, origination

Near Antonyms of wrinkle

carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction

wrinkle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of wrinkle

1 to develop creases or folds

if you don't fold clothes promptly after drying, they'll wrinkle

Synonyms of wrinkle

crease, crinkle, furrow, rumple

Words Related to wrinkle

collapse, crumple, double, fold

2 to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in

sitting down on the bedspread wrinkled it

Synonyms of wrinkle

crinkle, crumple, rumple, scrunch

Words Related to wrinkle

corrugate, crease, crimp, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck

crisp, ripple, ruffle

contract, furrow, knit

mess (up), muss (up)

Near Antonyms of wrinkle

even, iron, press, straighten

unfold

neaten, tidy

Antonyms of wrinkle

flatten, iron out, smooth, smoothen, uncrumple

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