wrinkle
/ˈɹɪŋkl̩/ verb C2- To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles. · Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive.
- To pucker or become uneven or irregular. · An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.
- To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age. · The skin is the substance that wrinkles, shows age, stretches, scars and cuts.
He/she/it wrinkles · Past wrinkled · Past participle wrinkled · -ing form wrinkling
Verb forms
- Base form
- wrinkle
- He/she/it
- wrinkles
- Past
- wrinkled
- Past participle
- wrinkled
- -ing form
- wrinkling
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Monte Cristo, in taking the seat Morcerf offered him, placed himself in such a manner as to remain concealed in the shadow of the large velvet curtains, and read on the careworn and livid features of the count a whole history of secret griefs written in each wrinkle time had planted there.
For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?”
Holmes had sat intently observant during this long discussion, missing no word that was said, with his keen eyes darting to right and to left, and his forehead wrinkled with speculation.
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