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wrinkle
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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 crease, crimp, crinkle, furrow Related Words 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 brainchild, coinage, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, inventionRelated Words contraption, device, gadget, gizmo (also gismo), novelty; design, product, work; dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision; conception, imagining, originationNear Antonyms carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction
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wrinkle
Synonyms and Antonyms of wrinkle
1 to develop creases or folds if you don't fold clothes promptly after drying, they'll wrinkle Synonyms crease, crinkle, furrow, rumple Related Words collapse, crumple, double, fold
2 to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in sitting down on the bedspread wrinkled it Synonyms crinkle, rumple, scrunch, crumpleRelated Words corrugate, crease, crimp, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck; crisp, ripple, ruffle; contract, furrow, knit; mess (up), muss (up)Near Antonyms even, iron, press, straighten; unfold; neaten, tidyAntonyms flatten, iron out, smooth, smoothen, uncrumple
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