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.
Now, smooth out that wrinkle between your brows, dear, and let’s have a nice supper.”
Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motor-car, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation.
That night came Aunt Ellen, gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth, in to Brother Anthony at his evening paper, and began discourse on the subject of lovers’ woes.
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