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wrinkle
1[ ring-kuhl ]
noun
- a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
- a temporary slight ridge or furrow on a surface, due to contraction, folding, crushing, or the like.
verb (used with object)
- to form wrinkles in; corrugate; crease:
Don't wrinkle your dress.
verb (used without object)
- to become wrinkled.
wrinkle
2[ ring-kuhl ]
noun
- an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation:
a new advertising wrinkle.
wrinkle
1/ ˈrɪŋkəl /
noun
- a slight ridge in the smoothness of a surface, such as a crease in the skin as a result of age
verb
- to make or become wrinkled, as by crumpling, creasing, or puckering
wrinkle
2/ ˈrɪŋkəl /
noun
- informal.a clever or useful trick, hint, or dodge
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Derived Forms
- ˈwrinkly, adjective
- ˈwrinkleless, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wrinkle1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wrinkle1
Origin of wrinkle2
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Example Sentences
It's a special place that focuses closely on vegetables, definitely a new wrinkle for Houston.
But there is an ugly underbelly to this otherwise charming story and it is not exactly a new wrinkle either.
A more recent wrinkle is the doctor who prescribes from his own office, cutting out the middleman (read: pharmacist).
A fabulous new book, The Siege: 68 Hours inside the Taj Hotel, by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, adds a new wrinkle.
This could signify a lot of things: a renewed drive by labor, or some wrinkle in the tax code that I'm not aware of.
They surround themselves with the atmosphere of the demi-monde and forget that a wrinkle is as fatal as a chaperon.
The keenest eye at that time could have detected no wrinkle on Lucy's lovely girlish face.
That is a philanthropic wrinkle for chapel keepers and other compounders of business and piety which we commend to special notice.
His ears were large, thin towards the end, and bound up with a sort of wrinkle at the origin.
I plunged ahead, as I saw Kramer take a breath and wrinkle his brow, about to make his pitch.
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