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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr & vb
n. {Wrinkling}.]
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
wrinkle or wrinkles in to corrugate; as wrinkle the skin
or the brow. ``Sport that wrinkled Care derides.''
--Milton.
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
--Pope.
2. Hence to make rough or uneven in any way
A keen north wind that blowing dry, Wrinkled the
face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.
{To wrinkle at}, to sneer at [Obs.] --Marston.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wrinkled
adj 1: marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled
cheeks" [syn: {wrinkly}]
2: made or become wrinkled as by crushing or folding; "tired
travelers in wrinkled clothes" [ant: {unwrinkled}]
3: (of linens or clothes) not ironed; "a pile of unironed
laundry"; "wore unironed jeans" [syn: {unironed}] [ant: {ironed}]
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