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wrin·kle1

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l] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -kled, -kling.

–noun

1.	a small furrow or crease in the skin, esp. of the face, as from aging or frowning.

2.	a temporary slight ridge or furrow on a surface, due to contraction, folding, crushing, or the like.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to form wrinkles in; corrugate; crease: Don't wrinkle your dress.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to become wrinkled.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (n.), back formation from wrinkled, OE gewrinclod, ptp. of gewrinclian to wind round; perh. akin to wrick, wrench

]

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wrin·kle2

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–noun Informal.

an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME, equiv. to wrinc trick (OE wrenc; see wrench) + -le

]

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wrin·kle Audio Help (rĭng'kəl) Pronunciation Key
n.

A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.
A problem or imperfection; a fault: The report had to be revised because of a few wrinkles.

v. wrin·kled, wrin·kling, wrin·kles

v. tr.

To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
To draw up into wrinkles; pucker: wrinkled her nose in disdain.

v. intr.
To form wrinkles.

[Middle English, back-formation from wrinkled, wrinkled, probably from Old English gewrinclod, past participle of gewrinclian, to wind, crease; see wer-² in Indo-European roots.]

wrin'kly adj.

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wrinkle (n.)

1387 (in wrinkling), probably from stem of O.E. gewrinclod "wrinkled, crooked, winding," pp. of gewrinclian "to wind, crease," from perfective prefix ge- + -wrinclian "to wind," from P.Gmc. *wrankjan (see wrench (v.)). Meaning "defect, problem" first recorded 1643; that of "idea, device, notion" (especially a new one) is from 1817. The verb is attested from 1528.

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wrinkle
noun
1.	a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
2.	a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
3.	a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
1.	gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: purse]
2.	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"
3.	make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow]
4.	become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple]

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wrinkle [ˈriŋkl] noun

a small crease on the skin (usually on one's face)
Example: Her face is full of wrinkles.

Arabic:	تَجَعُّد، غَضْن، تَغَضُّن
Chinese (Simplified):	皱纹
Chinese (Traditional):	皺紋
Czech:	vráska
Danish:	rynke
Dutch:	rimpel
Estonian:	korts
Finnish:	ryppy
French:	ride
German:	die Falten, die Runzel
Greek:	ρυτίδα, ζάρα
Hungarian:	ránc
Icelandic:	hrukka
Indonesian:	kerutan
Italian:	ruga

Japanese:	しわ
Korean:	주름살, 구김살
Latvian:	grumba; krunka
Lithuanian:	raukšlė
Norwegian:	rynke
Polish:	zmarszczka
Portuguese (Brazil):	ruga
Portuguese (Portugal):	ruga
Romanian:	rid
Russian:	морщин(к)а
Slovak:	vráska
Slovenian:	guba
Spanish:	arruga
Swedish:	rynka, veck
Turkish:	kırışıklık, burşukluk

wrinkle [ˈriŋkl] verb

to (cause to) become full of wrinkles or creases
Example: The damp had wrinkled the pages.

Arabic:	يَتَغَضَّن، يَتَجَعَّد
Chinese (Simplified):	使起皱纹
Chinese (Traditional):	使起皺紋
Czech:	zkrabatit
Danish:	krølle
Dutch:	kreuken
Estonian:	kortsu(ta)ma
Finnish:	rypistää
French:	rider; plisser
German:	zerknittern
Greek:	ζαρώνω
Hungarian:	ráncol
Icelandic:	hrukka, krumpa
Indonesian:	mengerutkan
Italian:	raggrinzire, spiegazzare

Japanese:	しわになる
Korean:	주름지다; …을 주름지게 하다
Latvian:	sagrumbot; saburzīt; sagrumboties; saburzīties
Lithuanian:	raukšlėti(s), su(si)glamžyti
Norwegian:	rynke, krølle, bli skrukket
Polish:	pomarszczyć
Portuguese (Brazil):	enrugar
Portuguese (Portugal):	enrugar
Romanian:	a rida; a încreţi
Russian:	морщить(ся)
Slovak:	pokrčiť
Slovenian:	nagubati (se)
Spanish:	arrugar
Swedish:	skrynkla till
Turkish:	kırış(tır)mak, buruş(tur)mak

See also: wrinkled

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Main Entry: ²wrinkle
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: wrin·kled; wrin·kling /-k(&-)li[ng]/
intransitive senses
: to become marked with or contracted into wrinkles wrinkle transitive senses
: to contract into wrinkles <wrinkled skin>

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Main Entry: ¹wrin·kle
Pronunciation: 'ri[ng]-k&l
Function: noun
: a small ridge or furrow in the skin especially when due to age, care, or fatigue

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Wrinkle

Wrin"kle\, n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]

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Wrinkle

Wrin"kle\, n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. ????.]

1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows." --Shak.

Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. --Emerson.

2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden.

3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n.] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]

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Wrinkle

Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.]

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." --Milton.

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. --Pope.

2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.

Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.

To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.

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Wrinkle

Wrin"kle\, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.

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