Synonyms for WRINKLE
ˈrɪŋ kəlwrin·kle

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1. wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, linenoun

   a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

   "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"

   Synonyms:
   kris, course, billet, short letter, assembly line, crease, melodic phrase, argumentation, railway line, argument, pedigree, product line, plication, parentage, melodic line, rail line, business line, contrast, communication channel, job, phone line, line of products, cable, bend, occupation, credit line, crimp, note, personal line of credit, flexure, line of reasoning, pipeline, descent, creese, demarcation, stemma, channel, tune, bank line, agate line, line of work, dividing line, stock, business, line of credit, furrow, lineage, wrinkle, bed, line of merchandise, origin, personal credit line, logical argument, line, fold, line of descent, melody, telephone circuit, line of business, air, bloodline, transmission line, strain, telephone line, seam, crinkle, production line, subscriber line, ancestry, blood, blood line

2. wrinklenoun

   a minor difficulty

   "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"

   Synonyms:
   seam, crease, crinkle, furrow, line

3. wrinkleverb

   a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

   Synonyms:
   seam, crease, crinkle, furrow, line

4. purse, wrinkleverb

   gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker

   "purse ones's lips"

   Synonyms:
   ruckle, crinkle, scrunch up, crumple, purse, crease, crisp, scrunch, rumple, wrinkle, furrow

5. wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crispverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   toast, crump, crease, crispen, ruckle, graze, rumple, crisp, hunker down, wrinkle, thud, crinkle, purse, hunker, rake, furrow, scrunch, crouch, scrunch up, crumple, squat

6. furrow, wrinkle, creaseverb

   make wrinkled or creased

   "furrow one's brow"

   Synonyms:
   rut, crease, ruckle, graze, groove, chamfer, crisp, chase, crinkle, purse, rake, wrinkle, furrow, scrunch, scrunch up, crumple, rumple

7. rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkleverb

   become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

   "This fabric won't wrinkle"

   Synonyms:
   ruffle up, furrow, ruckle, crease, graze, rumple, pucker, break down, collapse, wrinkle, purse, crumble, buckle, rake, knit, tumble, ruffle, mess up, crinkle, crisp, scrunch up, cockle, crumple, scrunch

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1. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   furrow, crease, fold, plait, gather, pucker, rumple, corrugation, rimple

2. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] notion, whim, fancy, whimsey, caprice, crotchet, vagary, freak, quirk, maggot

3. wrinkleverb

   Synonyms:
   corrugato, crease, rumple, cockle, pucker, crumple

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1. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck, notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey

2. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   crow\'s feet

3. wrinkleverb

   Synonyms:
   rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, cockle, ruck, crumple

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1. List of paraphrases for "wrinkle":

   ride

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1. Kevin Chun:

   7 WRINKLE-FIGHTING FOODS PROBABLY ALREADY IN YOUR KITCHEN Chef Kevin Chun, Honeybrains ’ executive chef and chief culinary officer, created a menu that garnishes those five food groups with herbs, spices, fermented foods and natural sweeteners from nature. Our main spice blend incorporates a couple of different paprikas, garlic, cumin, coriander seeds, a lot of spices that you might find in Mediterranean flavors.

2. Carly Fiorina:

   This is the face of a 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every single wrinkle.

3. Made:

   Ricky See thats what I'm talking about bobby, first class. You've got to get used to this my man, you deserve it. Hey ladies, you missed out on staying at the SoHo Grand on this trip you know what I mean. Listen, I'd offer you a ride in my limo, but I got to stretch my shit out. I'm a tall drink of water, don't want to wrinkle anything.

4. Samuel Ullman:

   Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

5. Immanuel Hermann Fichte:

   Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul!