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