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Crease   /kris/   Listen
Crease

noun
1.
An angular or rounded shape made by folding.  Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication.  "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"
2.
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.  Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle.  "Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
3.
A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade.  Synonyms: creese, kris.
verb
(past & past part. creased; pres. part. creasing)
1.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"
2.
Make wrinkled or creased.  Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle.
3.
Scrape gently.  Synonyms: graze, rake.
4.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.  Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle.



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"Crease" Quotes from Famous Books



... yourself time to love?' he murmured, as it were with a kind malice, and every crease in his veined and yellow features was intensified by ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett

... right-front corner over and lay it on the left-rear corner. Pull all canvas smooth, throw guys toward square iron, and pull bottom edges even. Then take the right-front corner and return to the right, covering the right-rear corner. This folds the right side of the tent on itself, with the crease in the middle and under the ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... give you this again," he said, and handed her the blue length of ribbon, folded smoothly, but showing the crease where ...
— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner

... was still wandering about the Paradou with all the mute agony of a wounded animal. She had ceased to weep. Her face was very white and a deep crease showed upon her brow. Why did she have to suffer that deathlike agony? Of what fault had she been guilty, that the garden no longer kept the promises it had held out to her since her childhood's days? She questioned herself as ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

... Granada, and passing through the village of Almeda, met a man on horseback like themselves and going the same way; after having traveled two or three leagues together, they halted, and the cavalier spread his cloak on the grass, so that there was no crease in the mantle; they all placed what provisions they had with them on this extended cloak, and let their horses graze. They drank and ate very leisurely, and having told their servants to bring their horses, the cavalier said to them, "Gentlemen, do not hurry, you will reach the town early"—at ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet


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