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corrugated

[ kawr-uh-gey-tid, kor- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

shaped into wavy folds or alternating furrows and ridges:
Drops of rain hammered on the corrugated metal roof.
Your cat can use the toy’s corrugated cardboard center as a scratching mat.

First recorded in 1585–95; corrugate ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective; corrugate ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

At the same time parts of the corrugated iron roof collapsed.

Since the Nehers departed, the school got a corrugated iron roof and there is now a real road into the town.

It ran into a corrugated tin sheet boundary and a large genip tree.

There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses.

Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.

And the parson went to live in the town, beside his church—in a corrugated iron house that was run up for him.

The corrugated iron roofs were dazzlingly white and smooth—two or three inches of snow in every groove.

The house was a rough, square, one-storeyed building, roofed over with corrugated iron.

A corrugated iron roof had saved it, they said, although there was a good clearing on either side of the shanty.

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