| crinkle | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle | a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" |
| ~ cutis, skin, tegument | a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch.; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" |
| ~ imprint, impression, depression | a concavity in a surface produced by pressing.; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" |
| ~ crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line | a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes. |
| ~ dermatoglyphic | the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet). |
| ~ frown line | a facial wrinkle associated with frowning. |
| ~ life line, lifeline, line of life | a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live. |
| ~ heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal line | a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature. |
| ~ line of destiny, line of fate, line of saturn | a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be. |
| v. (contact) | 2. crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle | make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| ~ pucker, cockle, rumple, crumple, knit | to gather something into small wrinkles or folds.; "She puckered her lips" |
| ~ ruck, ruck up, pucker | become wrinkled or drawn together.; "her lips puckered" |
| v. (change) | 3. crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle | become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.; "This fabric won't wrinkle" |
| ~ fold up, fold | become folded or folded up.; "The bed folds in a jiffy" |
| ruffle | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. flounce, frill, furbelow, ruffle | a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim. |
| ~ adornment | a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness. |
| ~ gauffer, goffer | an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats. |
| ~ jabot | a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt. |
| ~ peplum | a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. choker, neck ruff, ruff, ruffle | a high tight collar. |
| ~ collar, neckband | a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over. |
| ~ fraise | a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century. |
| n. (act) | 3. affray, disturbance, fray, ruffle | a noisy fight. |
| ~ fighting, combat, fight, scrap | the act of fighting; any contest or struggle.; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" |
| v. (motion) | 4. cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate | stir up (water) so as to form ripples. |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| ~ flow, flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream.; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. ruffle | trouble or vex.; "ruffle somebody's composure" |
| ~ annoy, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, rile, vex, bother, nettle, rag, chafe, get at, get to | cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
| v. (motion) | 6. cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup | to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others.; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. ruffle | discompose.; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues" |
| ~ fluster | cause to be nervous or upset. |
| v. (contact) | 8. flick, riffle, ruffle | twitch or flutter.; "the paper flicked" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (contact) | 9. mix, ruffle, shuffle | mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.; "shuffle the cards" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ reshuffle | shuffle again.; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards" |
| ~ riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ cut | divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.; "Wayne cut"; "She cut the deck for a long time" |
| v. (contact) | 10. fluff, ruffle | erect or fluff up.; "the bird ruffled its feathers" |
| ~ loosen | make less dense.; "loosen the soil" |
| v. (contact) | 11. mess up, ruffle, ruffle up, rumple | disturb the smoothness of.; "ruffle the surface of the water" |
| ~ disarrange | destroy the arrangement or order of.; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk" |
| v. (contact) | 12. pleat, ruffle | pleat or gather into a ruffle.; "ruffle the curtain fabric" |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| wrinkle | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. wrinkle | a minor difficulty.; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out" |
| ~ difficulty | a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result.; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. wrinkle | a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different). |
| ~ method | a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps). |
| v. (contact) | 3. purse, wrinkle | gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.; "purse ones's lips" |
| ~ contract | make smaller.; "The heat contracted the woollen garment" |
| v. (contact) | 4. crease, furrow, wrinkle | make wrinkled or creased.; "furrow one's brow" |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| pinch | | |
| n. (state) | 1. pinch | a painful or straitened circumstance.; "the pinch of the recession" |
| ~ difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.; "grappling with financial difficulties" |
| n. (state) | 2. pinch | an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed. |
| ~ harm, hurt, injury, trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. |
| n. (quantity) | 3. hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch | a slight but appreciable amount.; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| ~ snuff | a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time. |
| n. (event) | 4. emergency, exigency, pinch | a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action.; "he never knew what to do in an emergency" |
| ~ crisis | a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something.; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better" |
| n. (act) | 5. nip, pinch | a small sharp bite or snip. |
| ~ snip, clipping, clip | the act of clipping or snipping. |
| ~ chomp, bite | the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws. |
| n. (act) | 6. pinch, tweak | a squeeze with the fingers. |
| ~ squeeze, squeezing | the act of gripping and pressing firmly.; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze" |
| n. (act) | 7. apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).; "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" |
| ~ capture, gaining control, seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property. |
| v. (contact) | 8. nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch | squeeze tightly between the fingers.; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" |
| ~ grip | hold fast or firmly.; "He gripped the steering wheel" |
| ~ goose | pinch in the buttocks.; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl" |
| ~ tweak | pinch or squeeze sharply. |
| v. (contact) | 9. crimp, pinch | make ridges into by pinching together. |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| ~ flute | form flutes in. |
| v. (possession) | 10. abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe | make off with belongings of others. |
| ~ steal | take without the owner's consent.; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" |
| v. (contact) | 11. pinch, top | cut the top off.; "top trees and bushes" |
| ~ prune, lop, snip, cut back, clip, crop, trim, dress | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.; "dress the plants in the garden" |
| ~ tail | remove the stalk of fruits or berries. |
| v. (change) | 12. pinch, vellicate | irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back" |
| ~ irritate | excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus.; "irritate the glands of a leaf" |
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