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Wrinkle   /rˈɪŋkəl/   Listen
Wrinkle

noun
1.
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam.  "Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
2.
A minor difficulty.
3.
A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different).
verb
(past & past part. wrinkled; pres. part. wrinkling)
1.
Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.  Synonym: purse.
2.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"
3.
Make wrinkled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, furrow.
4.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple.



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"Wrinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... each wrinkle there Records some good deed done, Some flower she scattered by the way Some spark ...
— Trial and Triumph • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

... persistent moral appeal. For one thing, the Book is absolutely fair to humanity. It leaves out no line or wrinkle; but it adds none. The men with whom it deals are typical men. The facts it presents are typical facts. There are books which flatter men, make them out all good, prattle on about the essential goodness of humanity, while men ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee

... properly upholstered groups, appeared Thompson, young, grave, long, slim, with an aged fuzzy plug hat towering high on the upper end of him and followed by a gray duster, which flowed down, without break or wrinkle, to his ankles. He came straight to us, and shook hands and compromised us. Everybody could see that we knew him. A nigger in heaven could not have ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... enough stir it till it is almost cold. Put in the barberries; set them on the fire, and keep them as much under the syrup as you can, shaking the pan frequently. Let them just simmer till the syrup is hot through, but not boiling, which would wrinkle them. Take them out of the syrup, and let them drain on a lawn sieve; put the syrup again into the pot, and boil it till it is thick. When half cold put in the barberries, and let them stand all night in the preserving-pan. If the syrup has become too thin, take out the fruit and boil it ...
— The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; • Charlotte Campbell Bury

... made to look attractive or ornamental, is to a certain extent true; but if it is simply a question of health VERSUS appearance, those who would sacrifice the former deserve to suffer. In this matter we may learn a wrinkle from a practical class of men, namely, sailors. One will find many of them pin their faith on the virtues of an abdominal flannel bandage, reaching from the lower part of the chest well down to the hips. It thus covers the loins and abdomen, and for warding off ...
— The Art of Living in Australia • Philip E. Muskett (?-1909)


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