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Synonyms for wrinkle
ˈrɪŋ kəlwrin·kle
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Princeton's WordNet
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, 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 linewrinklenoun
a minor difficulty
"they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
wrinkleverb
a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
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, furrowwrinkle, 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, thud, crinkle, purse, hunker, rake, furrow, scrunch, crouch, scrunch up, crumple, squatfurrow, wrinkle, creaseverb
make wrinkled or creased
"furrow one's brow"
Synonyms:
rut, crease, ruckle, graze, groove, chamfer, crisp, chase, crinkle, purse, rake, furrow, scrunch, scrunch up, crumple, rumplerumple, 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, purse, crumble, buckle, rake, knit, tumble, ruffle, mess up, crinkle, crisp, scrunch up, cockle, crumple, scrunch
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List of paraphrases for "wrinkle":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#71 | business | |
#228 | line | |
#428 | course | |
#429 | job | |
#434 | stock | |
#460 | note | |
#478 | air | |
#1143 | cable | |
#1193 | channel | |
#1260 | bed | |
#1323 | blood | |
#2077 | argument | |
#2518 | origin | |
#2968 | ride | |
#3990 | contrast | |
#4385 | pipeline | |
#4578 | occupation | |
#5752 | chase | |
#5858 | tune | |
#6423 | fold | |
#6506 | bend | |
#6612 | strain | |
#7052 | collapse | |
#9479 | purse | |
#9571 | groove | |
#9932 | knit | |
#11131 | melody | |
#11793 | crisp | |
#12080 | ancestry | |
#13070 | descent | |
#13157 | toast | |
#13905 | kris | |
#14102 | buckle | |
#15349 | pedigree | |
#15790 | lineage | |
#17934 | tumble | |
#19657 | rake | |
#19758 | seam | |
#20390 | wrinkle | |
#22907 | billet | |
#26161 | crouch | |
#27478 | squat | |
#29367 | crease | |
#34150 | crimp | |
#34901 | ruffle | |
#37165 | rut | |
#40580 | crumble | |
#45177 | argumentation | |
#45397 | thud | |
#45796 | parentage | |
#46467 | demarcation | |
#47000 | furrow | |
#47400 | graze | |
#50404 | crump | |
#55809 | bloodline | |
#65224 | crinkle | |
#70458 | pucker | |
#84870 | plication | |
#86646 | flexure | |
#87911 | cockle | |
#106852 | hunker | |
#116185 | crumple | |
#123195 | chamfer | |
#154932 | scrunch | |
#214393 | rumple | |
#227984 | crispen | |
#230483 | creese | |
#304166 | ruckle |
How to use wrinkle in a sentence?
Imagine that when you get depressed, that not just one location on your forehead — which forms this frown wrinkle — but all the muscles get stressed and constricted, then there is a distributed muscle memory. By breaking that memory by basically relaxing all of them, you break the feedback between the head and the muscles in this case.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
This is the face of a 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every single wrinkle.
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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.
When you look at the issues and the vote preferences, there is a slight wrinkle in Georgia: Republican primary voters are focused on the economy and immigration, which should benefit candidates from the Trumpwing of the party, and you see this with Walker, but Kemp -- so far -- is holding off Perdue in the gubernatorial contest.
Translations for wrinkle
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- جعدة, تجعدArabic
- qırışAzerbaijani
- маршчынаBelarusian
- бръчка, гънкаBulgarian
- vráskaCzech
- krølleDanish
- altern, zerknittern, Falte, runzelig werden, Runzel, verschrumpeln, Problem, schrumpelnGerman
- ζαρώνω, ζάρα, ρυτίδα, πτυχήGreek
- arrugar, aspereza, arruga, imperfecciónSpanish
- kortsud, kortsEstonian
- چروکPersian
- ryppy, rypistyä, bugi, vika, lastentauti, kurtistaa, rypistää, juonne, kurtistua, virheFinnish
- rider, froisser, ride, aspérité, plisserFrench
- gyűrődés, barázda, redő, ránc, egyenetlenségHungarian
- կնճիռArmenian
- hrukka, korpaIcelandic
- raggrinzire, asperità, spiegazzare, imperfezione, irregolarità, crepa, rugaItalian
- 皺, しわが寄る, 皺ばむJapanese
- 주름지다Korean
- چرچ کردن, چرجKurdish
- rugaLatin
- ngene, hākorukoru, rehe, rehengaMāori
- rimpel, kreukenDutch
- pomarszczyć, zmarszczkaPolish
- ruga, amassar, enrugarPortuguese
- hawch'ayQuechua
- cuta, zbârci, plisa, încreți, ridaRomanian
- сморщить, мять, морщина, морщить, сморщиться, складка, смять, морщиться, сминатьRussian
- набирати, набор, nabirati, борати, bora, nabor, borati, бораSerbo-Croatian
- gubaSlovene
- rrudhëAlbanian
- kırışıklık, problem, sorun, buruşuklukTurkish
- зморшкаUkrainian
- nếp nhănVietnamese
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