| wrinkle | | |
| 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. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. 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) | 3. 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) | 4. 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) | 5. 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. (contact) | 6. 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" |
| v. (change) | 7. 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" |
| wrinkled | | |
| adj. | 1. wrinkled, wrinkly | marked by wrinkles.; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes" |
| ~ unsmoothed | not having been made smooth by having hands run over the surface. |
| ~ furrowed, rugged | having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface.; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile" |
| adj. | 2. unironed, wrinkled | (of linens or clothes) not ironed.; "a pile of unironed laundry"; "wore unironed jeans" |
| ~ permanent-press, drip-dry | used of fabrics that do not require ironing.; "drip-dry shirts for travel" |
| ~ roughdried | (of laundry) dried but not ironed. |
| ~ unpressed | (of clothing) not smoothed with heat. |
| ~ rough, unsmooth | having or caused by an irregular surface.; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" |
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