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cor·ru·gate
[v. kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; adj. kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor-] verb, cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, adjective 
əˌgeɪt, ˈkɒr-; verb (used with object)
1.
to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
2.
to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
3.
Western U.S. to make irrigation ditches in (a field).
verb (used without object)
4.
to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.
adjective
5.
corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.
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World English Dictionary
| corrugate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (usually tr) to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges |
| —adj | |
| 2. | folded into furrows and ridges; wrinkled |
| [C18: from Latin corrūgāre, from rūga a wrinkle] | |
| corru'gation | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
corrugate
1520s (implied in corrugation), from L. corrugatus, pp. of corrugare "to wrinkle," from com- intens. prefix + rugare "to wrinkle."
corrugated
1620s, "wrinkled" (of skin, etc.), pp. adj. from corrugate. Meaning "bent into curves or folds" (of iron, cardboard, etc., for elasticity and strength) is from 1853.
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Example sentences
He does it by moving containerized tropicals under a corrugated plastic roof.
Five trailers painted pink, linked by a corrugated metal roof, are surrounded by a six-foot fence topped with barbed wire.
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
These are stone benches arranged in rows, which give the semicircular bowl-shape of the theatre a corrugated surface.
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